Word: dig
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leader. I’ll just dig a hole in the Quincy courtyard,” he said...
...close scrutiny and logging twice as many hours. Now the once cushy job could bring a crushing level of personal financial liability as well. That's the latest tremor to rock the business world. It springs from a deal in which 10 former directors at WorldCom (now MCI) will dig deep into their pockets to settle lawsuits stemming from the phone company's accounting scandal and plunge into bankruptcy...
...Libya's known oil reserves hold 30 billion bbl. - more than $1 trillion worth - enough to keep the pumps turning in Libya for decades. What's more, only about 25% of the country has yet been explored. Some 120 companies have joined Libya's first open bidding process to dig for new oil in 15 areas; the bid results are expected at the end of this month. Oil companies regard Libya's crude as some of the best on the planet. Relatively thin, it is among the easiest to refine. And tankers leaving Libya need far less time to reach...
...mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. In Batticaloa, on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, dozens...
...soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles...