Word: dust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush administration's global anti-terror campaign has given it an overriding interest in restarting some form of Israeli-Palestinian peace process - and America is not finding Prime Minister Ariel Sharon particularly eager to play ball. Before the dust had settled on the World Trade Center ruins, Sharon ordered his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, to call off cease-fire talks with Yasser Arafat, who Sharon likened to Osama Bin Laden. And he has since sent his army into three Palestinian cities amid escalating violence. Bush administration officials phoned Sharon five times in the past week to urge him to allow...
...closer than I?d ever been to knowing what it was to lose a hundred friends in an hour. The Dow?s losses had stabilized in the 600-point range by mid-morning, and the only thing to do was to shuffle back though the smoke and the dust and an impertinent sun, back to my usual market-watching perch in front of the TV in my cubicle. Just in case the bottom dropped...
...stock trading Monday was also arguably the most breathlessly anticipated session of all time. Three thousand traders crowd the floor of the NYSE every day, but as we all milled around outside in the hours before the reopening bell - breathing air still gray and bitter with smoke and dust and dawn - they were easily outnumbered by the professional gawkers who had descended on the Big Board from all over the world, panning for soundbites, owing copy...
...can’t even find concrete. It’s dust. What we’re calling bodies aren’t really bodies,” a high-ranking police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity...
...Congressional and Senate leaders in this room knew that money gets wasted when it's appropriated in the heat of the moment. "I'm an American first," Rep. David Obey, the Appropriations Committee's senior Democrat, told the others. "I want to turn these attackers into fairy dust. But we need to look at the fine print of what we're doing here...