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Bachmann, Michele •"anti-American nature" of Obama and other "people in Congress" is decried by •hundreds of thousands of dollars instantly flood into the campaign coffers of opponent of •Republican congressional campaign committee pulls...
...growth averaged almost 7% annually, most forecasters expect the economy to expand by less than 4% this year and next. Foreign direct investment poured into Turkey this decade as companies ranging from French insurer Axa to U.S. private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts snapped up Turkish assets. But that flood has now been reduced to a trickle. The burgeoning middle class is starting to curb its free-spending ways, and the nation's two major export industries - automobiles and textiles - are watching nervously as international sales drop...
...delivery man who had parked his van slightly in the shuttle’s way. Something is definitely going on with the shuttle these days. “I’ve seen so many ridiculous things happen on the shuttle,” says Sara M. Flood ’10, a Pforzheimer resident. “Once, some guy stepped up onto the back of the shuttle and held on while he was drinking a beer!” Passengers are witnesses to absurdities that take place inside the bus as well...
...inquired? The shaman replied: on the lower part of our terraced land, near a rustling stand of bamboo, the spirits had built their own pharmacy, auto-body-repair shop and even a food stall that served fried rice. No infinity-edge swimming pool would be going there, lest we flood the otherworldly denizens picking up a prescription or delivering a motorcycle for a tune-up. We also would need to leave a section of riverbank undeveloped because a local demigod traversed the land on his daily pilgrimage to a volcano up north. My husband and I eyed each other...
...goes to plan, in a couple of years the trickle will turn into a flood. When it's completed 20 years from now, KAEC will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population exceeding 1.5 million. It will have a seaport, an industrial district, a financial center, a health-care zone, a full-fledged university and a beach resort. Not since Braslia and Chandigarh in the 1950s and '60s has any country set out to build an entirely new city on such a scale...