Word: dumps
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...with one faction in Iraq over another - history has shown that trying to pick a winner in a civil war rarely succeeds. Don't push for a three-way partition of the country as some in Congress have advocated - except for the Kurds, most Iraqis oppose it. Don't dump the problem on the United Nations, which isn't equipped to handle...
...former site of a fuel-storage and -transfer facility, which is why nearly all the original soil had to be dug out and carted away. And the City of New York is planning a huge and inventive new park atop Fresh Kills, the massive landfill--meaning garbage dump--on Staten Island where much of the debris from the Twin Towers was hauled after 9/11...
...seven-day stay in Mogadishu this month, I caught a glimpse of the country's dysfunction. Somalia has atomized into its ancient form--a collection of hundreds of clans. Taxation has been replaced by protection rackets ranging from clan gangsters who collect weekly "rent" to garbage collectors who dump rubbish in a street and demand money to remove...
...several days as it did three years ago, could precipitate a catastrophic collapse. The last big famine during 1995-96 is now estimated to have killed as many as 2 million North Koreans. With memories of those awful days still vivid, China believes that any similar crisis would dump a huge humanitarian crisis in its lap by sending hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees over the border, badly disrupting the economy of China's northeast. Beijing is currently constructing a fence along the border, but there is little expectation that this will be particularly effective. All of which means that...
...best-ever runner, having broken the 35-year-old rushing record in last week’s loss at Penn. His 4,781 career yards include 422 in three games against Yale, not to mention last year’s 10-catch, 85-yard output on the underneath dump-offs that became Harvard’s most dependable source of offense in the improbable second-half comeback...