Word: chokes
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...control over mixed neighborhoods by violently forcing out Sunnis. But if the Shi'ite militias control much of the capital, reports suggest that Sunni insurgent groups are tightening their grip along road-transportation routes into and out of the capital. Such tactics have previously allowed the Sunni insurgents to choke fuel supplies into the capital. With that kind of virtual stalemate prevailing, Maliki won't likely be taking orders from Washington anytime soon...
...appear with him and now seemed to be keeping a safe distance. Sherwood, you may recall, was the fellow whose affair with a young Peruvian immigrant exploded when she locked herself in the bathroom of his Capitol Hill townhouse, called 911 and claimed the Congressman was trying to choke her. The Congressman, who said he was only giving a massage, made a quiet, out-of-court settlement with the woman last year. Bush announced that Sherwood was the "right man" to represent the district, which drew a big nothing from the crowd, and then quickly sought refuge in his stump...
...stars. The game will be nationally televised at 7 p.m. on ESPNU, for those of you with 400 channels, a fondness for mid-level 1-AA football, and no other plans.Few may recall that these were the top two teams in the league last season, with only a monumental choke against Yale in the penultimate week separating Princeton from a share of the title. The Tigers, to the surprise of many, picked up where they left off, entering the national rankings this week for the first time since 1993. Coach Roger Hughes’ shutdown D (274 yards surrendered...
...carefully that many operations are needlessly duplicated. "It's very hard for Airbus to free itself from political strangulation," says Ulrich Horstmann, aerospace analyst at Munich, Germany-based Bayerische Landesbank. Christian Streiff, who took over as Airbus chief executive in July, is now trying to wriggle out of that choke grip. Last week, the board of EADS, Airbus' parent, signed off on his sweeping restructuring plan to replace political bargaining with industrial logic. Streiff says that Airbus urgently needs to become a more closely coordinated company, but that's a long-term undertaking. "Integrating Airbus will remain an issue...
Being an environmental activist in China "is sometimes very lonely work," says Wen Bo. The nation's cities choke with smog and many rivers are putrid, yet "people in China just don't think there's a need to protect the environment. Even when I was a student putting up posters for a campus environmental group, people would look at me strangely. They couldn't understand the need for a club that wasn't for Ping-Pong or photography...