Word: derailments
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...They begin with her unexpected pregnancy. Dev, whom Meera had first fallen for as she watched him compete in a school singing contest, is working as a clerk. But he's a tortured artist, and a baby, for him, would only derail his lingering fantasies of making it big in Bombay as a Bollywood playback singer. Meera's father, meanwhile, still hopes that she'll go to college and make something of herself beyond being a housewife, which for him symbolizes the feudal India of illiteracy and ignorance...
...repeated use of its ample energy resources to threaten its Western-oriented neighbors. Most troubling is what Lucas calls "pipeline politics" - Moscow's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the Shtokman Field in the Barents Sea to the German city of Greifswald; and its attempts to derail Western plans to install a pipeline connecting the Caspian Sea and Baumgarten, Austria. That project, the Nabucco pipeline, would circumvent Russia by bisecting Turkey, and would give Russia's neighbors far more bargaining power when negotiating with Gazprom, the state-run gas company...
...count cards to turn the blackjack odds in their favor. Ben needs tuition money for Harvard Medical School and is soon seduced by the possibility of hitting it big with cards. The players lead a fantasy lifestyle during their excursions away from Cambridge until greed, jealousy, and casino security derail them.From the opening credits, where the camera pans over the surfaces of playing cards to a dark, flashy casino club, the film is highly stylized and polished. It contains the requisite shots of Ben staring in wonder out the window of a limousine at the gleaming Las Vegas landscape?...
...Jones, the former CCA manager, alleges that the company even began keeping two sets of books - one for internal use that described prison deficiencies in telling detail, and a second set that Jones describes as "doctored" for public consumption, to limit bad publicity, litigation or fines that could derail CCA's multimillion-dollar contracts with federal, state or local agencies...
...against Colgate. With the clock ticking down in the third period and the contest deadlocked at 2-2, the Raiders (12-15-5, 9-9-4 ECAC) took a 4-on-3 advantage after two penalties were logged against Harvard. For a moment, it looked like Colgate might derail the Crimson’s unblemished conference campaign.Then Sarah Vaillancourt took the puck.The junior forward tracked down a clear from the Harvard zone at center ice and advanced into Colgate territory on a breakaway. After a deke to the right, she netted the game-winning shorthanded goal past Raiders netminder Lisa...