Word: flood
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...Australia's stance on immigration has been riddled with controversy for almost a decade. After a flash flood of boat arrivals in 2001 - 43 boats full of 5,516 asylum seekers arrived that year - the conservative John Howard government established the grimly named "Pacific Solution," which diverted asylum seekers arriving to Australia by boat to remote detention centers scattered around the Pacific Ocean. Holding camps were set up on the small island nation of Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where would-be refugees were kept indefinitely while their applications were processed. Many were confined in the premises...
...flood stage, and who's to blame? The answer is like the estimates of the size of the crowd in Washington: Whom do you trust? Either the corrupt, communist-loving traitors on the left are causing this, or it's the racist, greedy warmongers on the right, or maybe the dishonest, incompetent, conniving media, which refuse to tell the truth about whomever you personally happen to despise...
...really feel that we are the forgotten disaster.' GREG EYERLY, flood-recovery director for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which is struggling to rebound from a June 2008 deluge that killed more than a dozen people in several Midwestern states...
...room. Kirkland Building Manager Scott Haywood says office and curtain partitions are generally fine, although preferably they should be flame resistant or flame retardant. Obviously, you’re not allowed to bring in plywood and build a wall in the middle of your common room. If a flood of sprinkler water will easily knock down your partition, you’re probably fine...
...last week in August, People of Walmart went viral, earning mention on websites like Funny or Die. Its traffic increased by 700% on Aug. 27 alone. Photo submissions went from one or two to more than 120. The flood of visitors has even crashed the site. (See the 50 best websites...