Word: bywords
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...poor Superdome victims highlighted on national television. Instead, chances are that cronyism and corruption will line the pockets of well-connected businessmen and officials. The government has a proven inability to manage and oversee spending (just think about the Big Dig), and Louisiana—a byword for political corruption—is probably the last place in America that should get billions of no-strings-attached dollars. This is the state that ranked third in per capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi was first.) Friends of the Bush administration are already salivating at the sight...
...fact, safe sex has become the byword in gay communities. The cover of the last issue of the Advocate, the national gay newsmagazine, was emblazoned with the headline SAFE SEX GUIDELINES THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE. Following those guidelines, many gays are for the first time using condoms and avoiding the exchange of body fluids, the most likely way that the virus can be passed from one person to another. Condom machines, once considered almost laughable among homosexuals, have been installed in the rest rooms of many gay bars and restaurants. "Straights learned about birth control, and gays have...
...first back-to-backs were completed in 1802. Consisting of three rooms, one above another, they were built around a central courtyard and each housed upward of 10 people. They became a byword for squalor until 1966 when they were finally declared unfit for habitation. Their rehabilitation began in 1988 when they were listed as historical monuments, and restoration of 54 Inge Street was initiated by the Birmingham Conservation Trust...
...front of the display of pickles and olives. That attack killed 15 people; the bomber's ravaged torso landed on Boneh. Though there were bigger attacks elsewhere in Jerusalem, the two bombings in the crowded alleys of Mahaneh Yehuda during the intifadeh added to its status as a byword for the horrible inevitability of terrorism, and many Israelis simply stopped coming. Boneh almost gave up after his sister Rose and 10 others were killed in January when a bomber struck on a bus near the center of town--one of two successful suicide attacks in the city this year. Boneh...
...Euro-skeptic voters will make this a seriously uphill fight, and one of Mandelson's key jobs will be to help lead it. Opponents of the constitution say: Bring him on. "Who better to put the case for the European constitution than a discredited politician whose name is a byword for lies and spin?" asks Neil O'Brien, campaign director for Vote No. A more immediate problem for Blair is a by-election for Mandelson's parliamentary seat, which may give the antiwar Liberal Democrats another chance to exploit unhappiness with Iraq to overturn a large Labour majority. Blair...