Word: gate
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...When Suu Kyi does walk through her sky blue metal gate, Burma's ailments won't be magically healed. Most are chronic and beyond the scope of one woman?even an icon like Suu Kyi?to cure. The country is devoid of the institutions needed to build a civil society: a democratic legislature, a functioning bureaucracy and education and health systems, an independent judiciary, a free press. But Suu Kyi stands at the very least as a symbol of hope. In the markets, tea shops and offices of the crumbling capital, Rangoon, the whispered conversations about politics now contain wisps...
...reached the gate of Quincy House, the point of our departure and the point of our sad return...
Blickstead said he believes the council is not subject to Cambridge’s licensing restrictions because it operates shuttles directly from Johnston Gate...
...economy positively roared out of the 2002 gate, racking up 5.8 percent GDP growth in the first quarter and pleasantly surprising just about everybody when the Commerce Department announced the results Friday. The GDP number is the best since the last quarter of 1999, and the slowdown of 2001 - recession, not a recession, it's academic - has now certainly gone down as the shortest in history...
...Since 9/11, flight crews have often had to go through screening alongside passengers, and are even pulled aside for special searches. The pilots call it "gate-rape"; many claim that screeners target them because doing so is an easy way for them to meet their quota of random searches and because screeners know crews will be punished by their airlines if they complain...