Word: heapings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even in the '60s, Tuareg society was struggling. Drought and government decree were relegating traditions?nomadism, historic hierarchies, the methodology for naming children?to the social scrap heap. The pace of change has only quickened. Tamanrasset, once a sleepy Sahara town, is now a real city, full of "big trucks, smaller trucks, jalopies, pickups of every conceivable make and era, cars, mopeds and bicycles; but no camels." Many Tuareg who have shunned city life make camp with government-issue tents instead of animal skins and wooden poles. Tagella, an unleavened flatbread, is still a staple. But these days...
...stick to their game plan. If potential buyers or partners come knocking after that, ceo Howe says, "who knows how it might turn out?" Executives also say critics have failed to recognize that MG Rover is a far different company from the one that seemed destined for the trash heap 14 months ago. Under BMW, Rover Group also included two other loss-making brands: the Mini, which BMW kept, and Land Rover, which was sold to Ford. And more than half of 1999's losses came from expenses that no longer exist, including interest on loans, loss-making fleet...
Remember how hard you prayed in March? Please, God, give me just one little rally in tech stocks. I'll sell what I have left, I swear, and never again commit the sins of underdiversification and speculation. Well, you can throw that pledge on the scrap heap of desperate promises never kept. Tech is torrid. Again. You want in. Again. Yet this could turn into Bubble II, a sequel with nearly as much punch as the original. That's not what anyone wants to hear after a yearlong, tech-led bust that wiped out $5.2 trillion of stock-market wealth...
During the Florida recount fiasco, which Tallahassee Republicans call "the recent unpleasantness," national pundits consigned Governor Jeb Bush to the chad heap of history. They clucked last month when he fought with his brother the President over oil drilling off Florida's Gulf Coast (W. wants to; Jeb does not). And they dished last week when Jeb denounced the "sickening" (and apparently unfounded) rumor that he'd had an affair with a state official, once a Playboy bunny...
...that was left were patches of yellowed grass where the tents had been and a heap of trash, including the torn-down facade of “Tent City Hall,” where notices had been posted for the camp-out community. Parked outside Mass. Hall was a truck from the A.M.-P.M. Cleaning Corporation. Vacuums whirred inside the building...