Word: heapings
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...Mike Nisbet at Rheem Manufacturing in Montgomery, Ala., is to keep 500 PCs and laptops virus-free and humming. Last year he was haunted by another worry: averting an avalanche. The obsolete or trashed equipment that he and his staff routinely piled in a storage room was in a heap 6 ft. high and growing. "I was afraid someone might get hurt," he says...
Ultimately, Mansfield does not endeavor to resolve the paradox of manliness, only to defend its virtues to a generation that he fears might otherwise consign it to the rubbish heap...
...first four months tending to Germany's role in global affairs. Now she will take up a series of reforms to health care, tax, pensions and, most importantly, labor markets that will really test the solidity of her grand coalition and her own popularity. "She has accumulated a heap of political capital," Reinhard Bütikofer, chairman of the opposition Green party, tells Time. "One of these days she is going to have to spend it." And, despite the burgeoning confidence of business and consumers, Germany's underlying economic problems are still there. The pension system is going bust, state...
...were freed by British special forces and Canadian law enforcement. The raid, born of intelligence extracted from a freshly captured prisoner only three hours earlier, oddly found the kidnappers absent; alas it couldn?t save Virginian Tom Fox, 54, whose tortured body had been found on a rubbish heap earlier this month...
...winners of Harvard-style housing are those who need it least. They are those legions of extroverts, those processed hordes, who, told to find a group of 7 friends, dutifully did. Perched atop their social heap, no doubt nested in some extra-curricular or another, they patiently await their next...