Word: hauls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...equipment that photographers haul around at news events--it can be a problem. When presidential candidate Mitt Romney invited supporters and journalists to the Johnston, Iowa, home of John and Sheryl Dutcher the other day, the room was so packed that the ornaments on the Dutchers' Christmas tree were at risk from swinging cameras...
...suspended parliament. If passed in its current form, the bill could grant the generals powers to deny basic civil rights. "The military see themselves as custodians of Thailand's political future," says Thitinan. "The security act is evidence of their intention to stay in politics for the long haul." This and other junta-proposed laws would "violate the people's rights," declared former senator Jon Ungphakorn, who led a hundreds-strong storming of the Assembly on Dec. 12 to demand its closure (proceedings were temporarily halted). With no single party likely to secure a majority (about 4,000 candidates from...
...Barnhill parked the U-Haul at the tailgate. A DJ began spinning tunes, and the beat pulsed through the morning. Over it floated a languid refrain, “You don’t know me...you don’t know...
...Paris's "banlieues" which spread to over 300 French towns in 2005, there was one reason for jittery French observers to hold their breath. Just as there were signs of cooling tempers among rioting youths, French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed that he planned to hunt them down and haul them to court. His first move was to visit police officers injured by rioters, promising "we'll find the shooters, and deploy whatever means that requires." "That's not something we can tolerate," Sarkozy continued. "It's got a name: attempted murder...
...parks and flowers and streetlights and the garbage gets collected. A blind man can tell where the Arab street begins by the potholes and the smell--there, by contrast, garbage is picked up only if the neighbors pay out of their pockets for a truck to come and haul it away. The kids play in the streets because they have few parks to go to. Some of my Israeli friends are aghast when I tell them where I live; it seems that Abu Tor's Arabs have a reputation for stealing everything: cars, bicycles, even dogs. This is partly because...