Word: dealing
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...arrangement was breathtakingly generous. In April the Federal Communications Commission, at the behest of Congress, handed out prized space on public airwaves to the nation's television broadcasters, space that would have fetched the public as much as $70 billion at auction. The broadcasters got better than a good deal on the new frequencies (effectively, a second channel for each of the nation's 1,500 TV stations). They got them for free. "The largest single grant of public property to a single industry in this generation," grumbles FCC chairman Reed Hundt, who favored an auction of the spectrum space...
...story of a madman who snuffed out the lives of four treasured members of a peaceful community. "God love these people as their families and their towns did," Harrigan, publisher of the News and Sentinel, wrote in an editorial that night. "And God help us all deal with what has happened, and remember those fine and cherished faces, and their smiles." But it is also the story of a small world of heroes. Drega, at every turn in his rampage, encountered ordinary people--and even a dog--who tried to stop him and save lives. As the sound of gunfire...
...days that followed the tragedy, there were signs that Colebrook was trying to cope. Black ribbons were hung from the banners in town that say COLEBROOK WELCOMES YOU. Up at the Balsams, the resort in Dixville Notch, guests were graciously asked for their patience as the staff tried to deal with the "terrible tragedy." And almost by way of apology, a sign on Route 3 read THE MOOSE FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELED...
That, in the end, is the heart of Museveni's message. "We are building Afrocentric, not Eurocentric, countries," he says, a continent where Africans deal with Africans. But the fragility of these ideas is still painfully evident even to Museveni. He stood at a hotel window in Kinshasa looking across the Congo river to Brazzaville, capital of the other country called the Congo. A prosperous, thriving nation just three months ago, that Congo has fallen back into mindless civil war, and as the latest cease-fire was broken, Museveni could see the bright red tracers of bullets arcing across...
...think anybody wants to deal with politics anymore," says Harlequin. "They want to get as far away from it as possible...