Word: cutters
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...their heavy guns--the Jeb Bush operation, family consigliere Jim Baker and, ultimately, five Supreme Court justices--to win the presidency. Then the Democrats in Congress made the disastrous assumption that Bush would be amenable to bipartisan compromise. "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape," the fanatic G.O.P. tax cutter Grover Norquist later said, in what could stand as an epitaph for the gullible Congressional Democrats. No less a liberal than Ted Kennedy gave his imprimatur to Bush's No Child Left Behind education bill, only to find that the money he expected to fund the program had been left...
...board broke its own age-limit rule of 65 to give the job to the 67-year-old Stonecipher, who had been chief of McDonnell Douglas when Boeing bought it in 1997. In his five years as Boeing's No. 2, he established himself as an aggressive cost cutter and gruff negotiator in his dealings with unions...
...caution that the real figure is much higher and could spiral further upward upon completion of the Three Gorges Reservoir, which might cause the snails to spread eastward. Jiang Changzao, a former official at China's largest reed plantation, which supplies pulp for paper, says that almost every reed cutter working the fields near Dongting Lake is now infected with schistosomiasis. He charges staff at the local health bureau with consistently underreporting the number of people infected in recent years in order to meet quotas on snail-fever prevention and to land year-end bonuses. "The local government is lying...
...Back on Dongting Lake, a reed cutter surnamed Song is resigned to the worms invading his body. During the colder months he serves as the plantation's caretaker, living in a makeshift lean-to made of reeds. One of the few ornaments inside his cramped quarters is a portrait of antidisease crusader Chairman Mao. Outside, the ground is littered with the shells of snails whose worms infect workers in warmer weather. Song's drinking and washing water, drawn from a brackish pit by his hut, also teems with Schistosoma worms in the summer. Naturally, Song has been diagnosed with snail...
Some of these celebrity opportunities are risky, however, as bad, cookie-cutter holiday entertainment can turn into a recipe for disaster. Well-respected celebs can blatantly showcase their unbridled capitalistic greed and thinly-veiled exploitation of fan base, or, as in the case of Will Farell’s Elf, gamble with projects that may completely flop and/or irreparably tarnish their image...