Word: collared
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...While they made their way around Blackburn, the heavily Muslim and blue collar town Straw represents in Parliament, the diplomatic duo were often met by anti-Iraq-war demonstrators, shouting and brandishing signs with slogans like "Stop torturing people" and "How Many Lives Per Gallon?" Straw is proudly showing off Blackburn, as well as nearby Liverpool, to return Rice's hospitality last fall, when she treated Straw and his wife Alice on a tour of her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama...
...Putting both defendants on the stand risks exacerbating the problem their attorneys have had to deal with from the beginning. The testimony of the two executives will probably not be consistent, says, Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of a four-volume textbook, White Collar Crime. Although Skilling and Lay probably won't turn against each other-they haven't so far-they may well contradict one another. "Both defense attorneys came in and cross-examined with one hand tied behind their back," Androphy says. The problem was most obvious during the testimony of former CFO Andrew Fastow, when...
...European constitution in May 2005, then violent unrest rocks the banlieues last fall. And now we have the anti-cpe explosion. It all shows that France is reverting to its old habits. Today, as in the past, the naysayers are hardly a homogeneous group. They include blue- and white-collar workers threatened by globalization, who increasingly abstain from voting or vote for the extreme right; small-business owners crushed by bureaucracy; the middle class, which overwhelmingly said yes to the euro but no to the constitutional treaty on Europe; and the country's youth, who will live less well than...
...choking to death," says Narain, 43, director of India's Center for Science and Environment. "Air pollution was taking one life per hour." Adds Lal, 63, then a senior government administrator: "The capital was one of the most polluted on earth. At the end of the day, your collar was black, and you had soot all over your face. Millions had bronchitis and asthma...
...definitely a staunch, anti-popped collar proponent, but I did, somewhat to my chagrin, pop my collar in the overwhelming Cabot spirit that overcame me,” Nelson said...