Word: clear
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...Mabini, a city of 41,000 overlooking the clear waters of Batangas Bay, used to be a busy farm town, where loaded trucks left twice a week carrying fruit to Manila. Today, nobody is making a living off the land. The local markets' produce comes from somewhere else, and the cost of living is inflated by residents' foreign salaries, which are easily 10 times local wages. In Little Italy, many workers have built sprawling, European-style homes - some complete with sweeping marble terraces, faux stone façades and fountains - years before they plan to return to the Philippines...
...politicians makes gay political donors a mafia, what do we call the endless parade of oil executives, Wall Street bankers and other rich, white, straight men and women who do the same? The struggle for civil rights may have progressed from the streets to the statehouse, but it is clear that TIME's coverage hasn't kept up. Eric Peterson, ORONO, MAINE...
...collection of the best reporting and writing from TIME's political team on his rise and historic victory. And it is overflowing with Callie Shell's incredible and intimate photographs of Obama, selected by photo editor Crary Pullen, many of which have never before been seen in print. "In clear and colorful storytelling," says Ignatius, "TIME's political team explains Obama's remarkable ascent and what it means...
...lame-duck session with plans to pass a spending bill in the $100 billion range. An even bigger effort is likely in January, when Barack Obama moves into the White House. And it's not just Washington: China has announced a $586 billion stimulus plan, although it's not clear how much of that will be new spending. Germany has approved $29 billion in spending and tax cuts. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to announce tax cuts soon...
...tacks sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa and may slowly be going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It becomes clear only in the book's fourth section that Bolaņo is performing these lateral leaps the better to observe from all sides the book's true subject: the horrific serial rape and murder of hundreds of women in and around Santa Teresa...