Word: hail
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...George Bush. Marton mixes some good history with a lot of pop marriage psychology to show the part that patience, tolerance, insight, determination, sex and occasionally even love have played in the pursuit and exercise of presidential power. Without the ladies, she argues, many of the men for whom Hail to the Chief has been played probably would have ended up as peanut merchants, obscure lawyers or morose ranchers. "[Lady Bird] made the [Lyndon] Johnson presidency possible," insists Marton. Coaxing her husband into running on his own in 1964, when he was in the final months of John Kennedy...
...legitimacy and energized the island's small but fervent rap community. In the past few years, some 200 rap groups have sprung up in and around Havana, bearing names like Obsesion (Obsession), Reyes de la Calle (Kings of the Street) and Anonimo Consejo (Anonymous Advice). Many of them hail from tough neighborhoods of Havana or Alamar, a town of 300,000 mostly Afro-Cubans living in concrete high-rises originally built to house Soviet laborers in the 1970s. Working with budgets so small they probably wouldn't be enough to cover the cost of gassing...
...people work in those buildings. How many of them had just sat down their computer, turned it on and were dialing to check their voice mail? I breathed a sigh of relief that I knew no one who worked in that building and quietly said a series of "Hail Marys" under my breath...
Here, too, the Administration is sanguine, pointing out that the wide range of countries from which the available cell lines hail--including India, Israel, Singapore and Australia--helps ensure that they will be as diverse as possible. Some researchers even insist that the precise number of cell lines isn't important at all because none of them will actually wind up in the body. At this early stage, investigators aren't so much developing cures as creating research and manufacturing techniques. For that, the specific cell lines aren't important. "This will enable the biomedical community to iron...
...resident of Soldiers Field Park filed a noise complaint. The responding officer discovered that an individual was yelling and trying to hail a taxicab...