Word: drain
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...Barnes. But "it will be very difficult" for him to do that, says Barnes, because the top AFL-CIO leadership supported Ron Carey, Hoffa's predecessor and nemesis, who was ultimately toppled because of campaign irregularities. The second challenge will come from the feds, whose continuing monitoring has helped drain the union's coffers and limited its influence. To undo those shackles, says Barnes "Hoffa will have to come to Washington with all his guns blazing." But with little money to maneuver past these obstacles, Hoffa is likely to find himself in the difficult position of driving a creaky tractor...
...mind. I sat bolt upright in bed and said, "We never found out what happened to those vanished pigeons!" My wife stirred. She'd heard me use that tone of voice before at around that hour in the morning, usually to say something like "Did we forget to drain the pipes...
...basic premise is a tired one, found most recently in such films as The Fugitive, The Net, The Pelican Brief and Conspiracy Theory. At times, Enemy of the State seems to steal directly from these predecessors. There is even a chase scene in a huge storm drain that is quite reminiscent of Harrison Ford's famous escape from Tommy Lee Jones '69 in the first movie mentioned above. Also, there are a few conspicuous references to 1984 by George Orwell and A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Despite the similarities, Enemy of the State manages to be intense, gripping...
What happens when you throw a kitchen sink indictment at a high-profile defendant represented by some of the nation's best lawyerly talent? The prosecution can go down the drain -- spectacularly. That's exactly what occurred Wednesday as Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz lost his corruption case against Former Clinton Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. After deliberating for nine hours over two days, a jury acquitted Espy on all 30 counts...
...needs nukes? They're such a drain on U.S. resources that the Pentagon wants to cut its nuclear arsenal without waiting for the Russian parliament to ratify the START II treaty, according to the New York Times. The treaty, which would halve each country's missile force, was signed in 1993, but communists and nationalists have delayed parliamentary endorsement as a partisan bargaining chip...