Word: burnes
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...groundswell for his return is growing among the Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan along the frontier. Reports are sketchy, but in the southern Afghan provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika influential tribal elders are so worried about rising support for the King among their clansmen that they are threatening to burn down the houses of anyone caught switching sides...
...inside Afghanistan--and in neighboring Pakistan too. "We have a saying: 'To kill a louse, you needn't set fire to your jacket,'" explains Mohammed Sarwar Khan Kakar, an influential tribal leader and politician in Quetta. "In other words, to catch Osama bin Laden, you don't have to burn all Afghanistan." Despite their grievances against the Taliban's brutish rule, Pashtuns would close ranks and rally to their fellow tribesmen against the U.S. In all likelihood, their forces would swell with zealots crossing over from Pakistan's madrasahs, or Koranic schools...
...store and took all the flags down from the front. "I felt like I didn't have a friend in the world. I cried for hours," he says. That night, strangers began to call the Caporale house. World War II vets reassured Caporale, he says, that he could burn the flag if he wanted to; that was what they had fought...
...Cantor Fitzgerald, which occupied floors above Morgan's, had no way of getting out. But many of Wall Street's brokerage houses and other firms were able to evacuate the bulk of their workers because of oft-repeated drills. Employees of the Japanese firm Mizuho had emergency kits with burn cream, "smoke hoods" and glow sticks strapped to the backs of their chairs...
...China's shopping frenzy has been fueled by the $65 billion the Chinese government plunks each year on infrastructure projects, and all that spending is starting to burn a hole in state finances. While official figures put the deficit at 2.7% of GDP, some analysts say the real figure is closer to 50% if you factor in Beijing's pension liabilities and more than $250 million in bad loans state-owned banks are thought to be hiding in their books. Meanwhile, the notion that China can be an engine for growth in Asia has pretty much gone out the window...