Word: dozen
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...least a dozen plays about Iraq - and many others more broadly about the Middle East - have been staged in London over the last four years. A few of them, like The Madness of George Dubya and A Weapons Inspector Calls, both cheekily satirizing the Blair-Bush axis, have successfully made the transfer from fringe to West End hits...
...boys crib last-minute homework from each other. Then the men with guns arrive-six of them in a pickup truck, two more on a motorbike, all toting M-16 assault rifles. It is the job of these government militiamen to protect two cars and five motorbikes carrying a dozen teachers. Their convoy speeds into this sleepy village with the well-rehearsed urgency of a presidential motorcade...
...students also use devious methods to make the grade. Last year two dozen were caught being fed answers through Bluetooth headsets concealed under wigs. Earlier this month, police busted a ring issuing fake IDs to university students taking the test in place of high school candidates. The price? $2,500, more than twice Vietnam's average annual wage. Authorities have beefed up security: keeping test papers under lock and key; sequestering exam professors; calling in security to guard test sites...
Perhaps so. But many of the three dozen journalists accompanying Edwards couldn't seem to get those snipping shears off their minds. Nearly every news story about the poverty tour made reference to Edwards' lavish coif by way of calling into question the candidate's ability to relate to low-income Americans...
...capitalists," says Gunn, "but long-term capitalists. And if you're a long-term capitalist, you need long-term satisfied customers." After months of informal conversation about skyrocketing inflows, the decision to close the two funds and potentially cut their income was made by more than a dozen people sitting around a conference table...