Word: cracking
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...Economic and Fiscal Policy, an advisory group to the Prime Minister's office set up in 2001, with a National Strategy Bureau (NSB) reporting to the Prime Minister. The NSB will be key in budget and diplomatic-policy formulation. The DPJ also wants to improve government transparency and crack down on conflicts of interest by eliminating amakudari, or "descent from heaven," a system whereby retiring bureaucrats are posted to plush private-sector jobs. "This is a new way of doing business in this country," says Curtis. "[But you] can't bash and demoralize [the bureaucrats]. The DPJ has to find...
...Netherlands. Stringing high-speed access to rural areas is much easier when your entire country is the size of Illinois. But while a significant access gap exists between urban and rural America, even the fastest regions of the U.S. (the northern Atlantic states) can’t crack the 10 megabits per second mark. South Korea’s average connection speed is over twice that fast...
Murphy added that this weekend’s “torrential” rains likely contributed to the leak, as the precipitation could have created sink-holes around the gas main, which had allowed the gas to escape from a pre-existing crack. The gas then likely followed the newly-installed water main that feeds Old Quincy’s sprinkler system into the building...
Murphy added that this weekend’s “torrential” rains likely contributed to the leak, as the precipitation could have created sink-holes around the gas main, which had allowed the gas to escape from a pre-existing crack. The gas then likely followed the newly-installed water main that feeds Old Quincy’s sprinkler system into the building...
...braids and lessons,” raps Kwon almost breathlessly over J. Dilla’s soulful beat.More often, though, Raekwon’s smooth tenor creates a sensational contrast to his narrative persona; Chef Raekwon derives the first part of his name for his skills in cooking crack, and his raps are generally vignettes portraying the ultra-violence of the streets and the drug trade. “Fat Lady Sings,” for example, tells the story of a drug dealer caught on the wrong corner who, after being beaten and sliced up with razor blades, simply...