Word: dumps
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...clock in the morning on April 21 of last year, two New York City cops watched four men dump two duffel bags into the trunk of a double-parked red Chevrolet Caprice. The men ran off as the officers approached, but the driver permitted a search of the bags. Inside were 80 lbs. of cocaine and heroin worth approximately $4 million. Later, during a 40-minute videotaped confession, the driver admitted to being a professional drug courier. This had been her 20th trip...
...army's proposal to deport families of the suicide bombers to Lebanon caused frustration. "We think that in the future these guys will think twice if they know that after they're gone, we're going to put their parents on a boat with two sandwiches and dump them on the Lebanese shore," says a high-ranking officer. Peres was said to be reconsidering the option...
According to this belief, if these partners keep their markets closed to our goods, they would only hurt themselves by forcing their consumers to pay higher prices for domestically--produced goods. Similarly, if our trading partners subsidize their companies to allow them to dump goods on U.S. markets by selling them at below cost, American consumers should accept such a gift even if U.S. producers are driven out of business by such unfair competition. In essence, the U.S. should embark on a free trade policy no matter what the circumstances...
...DEEP! DEEP!" which apparently means to dump the puck in the zone...
Much of Wallace's humor is cute the first time around, less so the second, third, fourth and fifth. One gag that holds up is the Great Concavity. This is a chunk of New England turned over to Canada and used as a dump site by the U.S. The method of garbage disposal suggests that environmentalism has ended up in the dustbin of history: monster catapults situated near Boston hurl their toxic loads northward...