Word: flooded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Depression, calling it "a temporary solution to deal with an emergency." But in Washington, the emergency has never ended. The government still gives farmers your money--more than ever over the past decade--along with research projects to expand their yields, restoration projects to clean up their messes, flood-control and irrigation projects to protect and enhance their land, visa programs to supply them with cheap labor, ethanol mandates and tariffs to boost their prices, and tax breaks by the bushel...
...heard Sigur Rós’s music before. They are not smiling or singing along but rather listening closely, pondering each song’s perplexing beauty.Yet somehow “Heima” comes together seamlessly. Even though the film has little plot, meaning and emotion flood each scene. When the band performs at an abandoned fishery, strobe lights and roaring guitars bring spirit to the lifeless locale. Elsewhere, playful anthem “Hoppípolla” soars as children run down the beach and kites fill a cloudless sky. Towards...
...nation from dust and rubble. It has yet to implement a system of income taxes and trade duties to regulate the economy. Still, Juba's potential is radiating beyond its borders, and a bustling cross-country trade is under way, as newly certified businessmen from Kenya and Uganda flood in, eyeing the oil riches and selling everything from eggs to cellphones. If the entrepreneurs are hearing war drums, they are not letting alarm get in the way of a lucrative deal...
...with 1.5 million refugees from the war and hundreds of thousands displaced by a recent flood, the area still faces dramatic challenges, according to Julian J. Atim, a Ugandan student at the Harvard School of Public Health who received the 2006 Physicians for Human Rights Award for her walk in one of the districts near Gulu. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...issue exploded last May when a letter was sent by the House Transportation Committee's James Oberstar of Minnesota and Peter DeFazio of Oregon to all 50 Governors, expressing concern that a flood of local deals might put "parochial and private interests" ahead of an "integrated national transportation network"--and threatening to undo any deals found not to be in the public's interest. That's pointedly at odds with the Department of Transportation (dot), which, following the lead of the Bush Administration, has been a huge supporter of privatization and helped pave the way by letting some companies issue...