Word: hashing
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...sprung up in the West. It is a shame that the book is let down by a plethora spelling errors and inconsistencies, the lack of endnotes and bibliography, and numerous mistakes in the English transliteration of Urdu and Punjabi words. But then balti itself is something of a hash, and that doesn't stop it from being rather moreish...
...offered to arrange a trip for me in the canoe of a fisherman from the local village—an “authentic” experience recommended in some guidebooks. When I declined my new friends offer, he wondered instead if I might not like to buy some hash. I’d been offered hash in Delhi and Kolkata too, but the frequency of offers in Puri, (including from one especially loony rickshaw-wala), when in fact the sparse Western crowd seemed a bit tame, made me wonder if “high season” had permanently...
...Paulson thinks he got hammered on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning for not doing enough to stem the tide of foreclosures, he's lucky he wasn't at the public library in Miami Gardens, Fla., Tuesday night. More than 200 homeowners facing foreclosure were hooking up with their lenders to hash out mortgage modifications, and they had some choice words for what they view as Washington's lack of help. "Paulson and the rest of them don't give a damn about what's happening to us," said Angela Butler, 49, a school custodian who, after going on disability two years...
...critics say that the process is dangerous and that the last place you want to be if something goes wrong is speeding down the highway. It takes time to hash out the risk factors associated with flu shots, such as being allergic to eggs or already having a fever when you get vaccinated. "Vaccines are not innocuous," says Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a consumer-led nonprofit in Vienna, Va. "We don't support a drive-by as if you're ordering a bottle of spring water...
...Dingman chose to hash out the details with a committee, though some selected were unfit in act and temperament for so delicate a task. Among them was J. Lorand Matory ’83, professor of anthropology, who, during the time on the committee, complained that he and other partisans of Palestine were, in his words, being persecuted by “a moneyed and media-connected American Israeli Defense Force…agile with the pen and the campaign donation...