Word: hauled
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Most Gazans must earn their meager daily bread in Israel. Some 50,000 jam the 44-mile route to Tel Aviv each dawn to sweep streets and haul garbage and build houses. By supplying Israel with cheap labor, Gaza has virtually eliminated unemployment. Even so, Palestinians deeply resent the forced dependence. "We are enslaved," says Rashad Shawwa, 79, mayor of Gaza, who was twice removed from office by Israeli officials. "We have become the servants of Israel...
...They're very, very patient," the warden said of the inmates. "We are ready for a long haul...
Such measures, however, have not stopped the spread of PCBs. In the case of Texas Eastern, the firm agreed in 1982 to clean the PCBs out of its compressors and haul the material to approved landfills. But the company continued to remove other residues -- some of which also contained high levels of PCBs -- from its pipelines. The EPA found PCB-laced sludge buried in rough pits at 89 company properties...
...allow an already weak dollar to fall still further, even though most economists agree it is inevitable, is a dangerous move that will carry a whole new set of economic risks. In the short run, a dollar lacking firm U.S. support could spin out of control; over the longer haul, its eroded purchasing power could reignite inflation. In an interview last week with the Wall Street Journal in which he acknowledged the new policy and sent the dollar plunging to new lows, Baker said, "I don't think we're out of the woods yet. I think markets are still...
...flamboyant. They tend to be the kind of men, and women, who use Boraxo to get their hands clean after a hard day's work. Often they work at physically demanding jobs, and they only appreciate sports that are physically demanding, like arm wrestling. They are big-bellied, long-haul truck drivers in dark blue Levi's and cowboy boots; gym owners in muscle T shirts; car mechanics in soiled khaki uniforms; skinny blond boys who work as bag boys at Publix; and occasionally they are pretty, olive-skinned women, like Teresa Taglione, with dangling gold earrings, blow-dried hair...