Word: ditching
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...weave in the Midwestern, feminine perspective from which her brand is derived, they will sandwich a layer of pink film between two pieces of glass, instead of painting the walls. In Hong Kong, where they are building an 85,000-sq.-ft. store for Lane Crawford, they plan to ditch the traditional formula of clothing racks plus wall fixtures in favor of furniture and shelves that sit on the floor to resemble a mansion rather than a department store. --By Nadia Mustafa
...thousand more in Asia and the West, and 6 million in neighboring India. Sudarshan Khadka, 23, was planning to find a job in the Middle East until he saw the video on television last week and recognized his 19-year-old brother Ramesh lying face down in an Iraqi ditch. "The future is so dark," he says. "People like my brother, like me, leave because they reach a limit. Now where...
...following months 1,200 people were arrested in a campaign so successful that the river's fate became a national election issue. When Labor won federal office in 1983 it kept its election promise to stop the project, despite court challenges from the Tasmanian government. "A brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic we'll see of his thwarted dream. Gray must never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock...
...standard of dress and the type of boat, we can usually tell where the crew are from." A typical FFV has several options for escape. Depending on its location, it can scoot back to the high seas or to the P.N.G. side of the fishing zone, or at least ditch its catch and equipment. In this case, the 7-m wooden fishing boat (designated a "Type 3") is too far inside Australian waters to flee. Instead, the Customs crew thinks, it will try to hide behind large rocks or in mosquito-infested mangroves. The boat's presence is unquestionably illegal...
...grotto, by the sense of hope and faith in the humid July air. Theirs is a hope and faith that leaves me out of the loop, because there's a part of me that would love—and I mean love—to be able to ditch my skepticism, get down on my knees and pray my heart...