Word: collared
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...caught in a tree and, incredibly, suffering only cuts and torn muscles. Also still alive were Hiroko Yoshizaki, 34, and her daughter Mikiko, 8, who were found under debris. Both had broken bones. The two children were lifted to the helicopter in the arms of troopers hanging from horse-collar slings. The women were winched into the chopper on stretchers...
...widespread publicity surprised Weitzman, too. “I guess it must be a man-bites-dog story. It’s kind of a blue collar situation with a Harvard professor,” he said. “I think that accounts for the interest...
...determine who may be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. Still, says Todd Jones, a corporate litigator at the Atlanta law firm Powell Goldstein, the SEC and the Justice Department are likely to be more cautious about pursuing such cases now, having been warned against prosecutorial overreach. One prominent white-collar litigant, former financier Frank Quattrone, above left, is appealing his conviction on similar grounds and has argued that he did not mean to commit a crime when he had documents destroyed...
Some of the accomplishments he points to are the development of affordable housing, the move from blue-collar to high-tech industry in Cambridge, and the appointment of guidance counselors in the Cambridge Public Schools...
...would achieve what the might of the US army - with its satellites, unmanned spy planes, thousands of special forces soldiers and Intel sources - had failed to do. After reading up on earlier mountain battles against the Russians, Adam identified what appeared to be a potential escape route for "White-collar al-Qaeda." On previous occasions other coalition Special Forces teams had attempted to establish secret observation posts in the district, but they had barely lasted a day before being discovered by shepherds or villagers...