Word: hauls
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...there is help on the way--those tax-rebate checks. "This was a perfectly timed tax cut," says Larry Lindsey, director of the President's National Economic Council, that "stopped a very precipitous fall." As the rebate stimulates consumer spending, he argues, it will increase the government's tax haul. The upshot: the surplus should come roaring back...
...says. That we-wuz-robbed zeal may keep party stalwarts perking--New Hampshire state chairwoman Kathy Sullivan says that at a recent picnic, she was besieged by people who think Gore deserves a "do-over"--but it isn't likely to do the trick with voters over the long haul...
...nets were brought to Kerala between 1350 and 1450. I watch eight men lower one of the nets - a giant wood-ribbed umbrella, suspended from a 30-m wooden spine by a complex system of ropes and stone counterweights - into the water, hold it there for a minute, then haul it out by pulling the ropes like some ancient tug-of-war with the backwaters. The men win, but the prize is paltry: a few eels and some nondescript fish, no more than 15 kg in all. But the fishermen seem happy enough. They break for a smoke...
...Kong trip back to Nanjing, we stop at an airport duty-free shop and hunt for souvenirs. After 36 months away, she decides she will return from Africa with a giant Toblerone bar, a bag of Sugus fruit chews and a bottle of Lubriderm Daily UV Lotion. Xu's haul is hardly as exotic as the unicorn that Zheng He presented to the Emperor. But she must take gifts home for waiting relatives. That is Chinese tradition, just as for centuries its citizens have made the long, hopeful voyage to Africa...
...tugboats to tow icebergs to Mexico. Just three months ago, a Greek company, Aquarius Water Transportation, was in Houston trying to interest clients in pumping North American water into rafts the size of football fields and towing them to parched locales around the world--a method Aquarius uses to haul water around the Aegean...