Word: dozen
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That was the first of half a dozen residential placements for Noah. Some were better than others, but none of them was a place you would want to put your own child...
...location may have been the first hint. The 23rd European Union-Russia summit on Friday was held in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk, a former Tsarist army outpost just a few dozen miles from the Chinese border and 5,000 miles east of Western Europe. The location seemed more aimed at inducing jet lag and awe at Russia's size than at forging agreement on energy, an issue that has consistently soured relations between the two powers over the past months - and which the summit failed to resolve...
...snarling" fear-mongering speech by is pepper-sprayed with repeated references to "danger," "threat," "attack" and a Giuliani-esque two dozen-plus mentions of "9/11...
...touting as an effort to tackle the obsession with celebrity, some observers say could simply be the president's way of keeping local leaders from trying to up their status by basking in his reflected glory. Rakhmon, a former cotton farm boss whose prezident.tj website features nearly a dozen pictures of him on the homepage alone, led pro-communist forces against Islamist rebels during Tajikistan's civil war in the 1990s and became leader of the nation in 1992, a year after independence. The nation's longest-serving president, Rakhmon continues to command popular support, despite his rule being plagued...
...Singapore immigration authorities are satisfied and the anxious chief engineer and his cohorts are ushered on board. Lee returns to the launch with two cold Cokes and a grin, one job done but a hectic day still ahead of him. He will perform the same task half a dozen times over the next 24 hours, flitting from one ship to the next until dawn. "Too much work," Lee says, gesturing toward an ocean littered with vessels, from bulk carriers to oil tankers to tramp freighters. (Read "Riding Out the Economic Storm in Singapore...