Word: bustingly
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...dejection, not frustration. Harvard really needs a chance to bust out and prove to themselves that they are as good as they know they...
...interview with a member of the OBKhSS showed him with his family in a beautiful Moscow apartment, decrying the terrible "profiteers" he has to bust every day. (Who would otherwise make about 100 rubles a month, enough to buy about 50 pounds of potatoes.) Nobody except government officials who can afford to bribe other government officials with money they've gotten from bribes of their own can afford to live in such apartments...
...calmly guided Houston through the oil bust and cleaned up the police force and reformed city government. But last week voters unceremoniously ejected Mayor Kathy Whitmire from office after 10 years. Land developer Bob Lanier and state representative Sylvester Turner placed first and second, respectively; they will meet in a runoff next month...
...corner phone with my girlfriend," Slicc recounted. "The Mexican drives up and yells, 'What set you from?' I yell it ain't none of his business, and he busts three caps ((shoots three bullets)) at me. I take out my gun and bust four back . . ." At that point, the father began to wave his arms and shout. Friends of Slicc's and Flipper's pushed the man firmly back inside his house. "Parents don't understand," shrugged Flipper...
...lubricant for a vast share-the-wealth program that provided the public with highways, charity hospitals, free textbooks and old-age pensions; largely shielded from taxes, the people tolerated the corruption that went along with the system. But that party is long since over. When oil prices went bust in the past decade, so did the state treasury, which now faces a projected $1 billion budget deficit for the coming year. Though things have gotten a little better since 1987, Louisiana still has trouble attracting new business. That's because business bears a heavier, and more unpredictable, tax burden than...