Word: doorstep
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...with a stunning move reminiscent of Buffalo Sabres' netminder Dominik Hasek's antics, Jonas did it again. At 7:53, Morin took a pass across the slot and found himself on the doorstep with open net. As he moved to take the shot, Jonas flung his stick across the goalmouth to make the save...
...That's obviously not what's on the minds of the 30 young men who turn up every week on Reiji's doorstep begging for jobs. Working as a male host still carries seedy connotations, but the recession has led them to seek out unusual career paths. Katsumasa Tanaka, 26, was a salaried worker at an auto-parts company in Osaka until earlier this year. The slender six-footer with Chiclet teeth came to Tokyo with dreams of singing and acting. After auditioning for a role in a movie about male hosts, he decided he could be one himself. Though...
...sustain any pressure in the Crimson zone until there was one minute left in the man advantage. Dutchman leading point scorer Jeff Hutchins took a huge turnaround shot in the slot through a screen that Jonas kicked aside. Its top goal scorer, Jeff Wilson, was there on the doorstep for the rebound, but somehow Jonas had an answer for that as well...
...Soviet Union, and their weapons programs have been widely viewed as a means of extorting aid from the West. But providing food relief may have helped walk Pyongyang away from doing something really stupid, and this has been generally applauded by U.S. allies on North Korea's doorstep. But Congress isn't particularly comfortable about the idea of bailing out a Stalinist basket-case simply because it threatens to go ballistic...
...outcome may be best parsed by the reactions of the various players. The smaller eastern European states that have been waiting on the doorstep are thrilled - their European "citizenship" will be granted on an equal footing with current members (Poland, for example, managed to win agreement that it would have the same number of votes as Spain, based on the equivalence in population size), and the summit also indicated that the door will be open to some of them as early as 2003. Among the current member states, some of the smaller nations were happy at holding back the designs...