Word: cousin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...casting a vote for Bush. The voters in Indiana and Ohio wouldn’t realize that we would get hit the hardest, that much of the job loss is from our factories, the outsourcing from our states. All the Battle Creek city positions would go Republican, and my cousin, who served a dedicated term as vice-chair of the county commission would squeak out a 104-vote victory. Never mind that his opponent was a late replacement with little time to campaign while he went to every door in his district, the conservative vote would come out strong...
...Garment District is the cooler, racier cousin of Boston Costume. Before entering, take a deep breath—this shop is not for the faint-hearted. The second floor is packed with racks of clothing, from intricate, multi-piece expensive costumes to vintage shirts, shoes and tacky pearl necklaces. And for all the wannabe bio concentrators, The Garment District’s selection of lab coats will make your heart pound. Shopping at The Garment District without direction is chaotic. With an idea in mind, however, this is the best place to piece together the crazy costume of your dreams
...monopoly on the telecommunications sector, and they don’t appreciate Internet service providers entering into their business arena and interrupting their revenue streams. At first, this seems like a typical third-world-corrupt-government sort of challenge: Because the prime minister’s third cousin owns the phone company, say, competitors find their leases suddenly expiring and their power being shut off without explanation...
...species, which Norell and co-discoverer Xing Xu of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology named Mei long, from the Chinese for "soundly sleeping dragon." But the specimen, dating to between 128 million and 139 million years ago, is clearly an early troodontid, an evolutionary cousin of tyrannosaurs...
...basketball player to All-Star consumer. He pries open his bedroom closet to reveal 19 pairs of Air Jordans, a full line of Dunks and signature shoes of NBA stars like Vince Carter--more than 60 pairs costing $6,000. Zhang began gathering Nikes in the 1990s after a cousin sent some from Japan; his businessman father bankrolls his acquisitions. "Most Chinese can't afford this stuff," Zhang says, "but I know people with hundreds of pairs." Then he climbs into his jeep to drive his girlfriend to McDonald...