Word: heaps
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...packing Christmas trees for export to America. A reporter invited him to a restaurant in Guangzhou to meet with legal reformers. They discussed Taishi, where villagers were trying to impeach their chief amid corruption allegations. Lu decided to help. On July 31, he addressed the villagers from atop a heap of bricks, which gave the movement its informal name: Rubble Pile Democracy...
These problems present a unique opportunity for new CEO Zetsche. If the quality and reliability issues have truly been dealt with--and the indications are growing that they have been-- Mercedes will once again take its place at or near the top of the heap. "It would be foolish to believe Mercedes' weaknesses will exist for very long," says Stuart McCullough, the European director for Lexus. The big question is how quickly those scared off by the quality problems will come back. The goodwill is clearly there. "I personally haven't given up on Mercedes-Benz," says Hurvitz, the financial...
After a brief pause, the section leader always chimes in, desperately searching for a shred of intellectual value to pull from that worthless scrap heap...
...second play of Harvard’s game-tying drive as he attempted to block one of Brown’s defensive backs at the first-down marker. As running back Clifton Dawson neared the spot, he, Mazza, and a number of Bears defenders were tossed into the same heap, with Mazza somewhere near the bottom. As the pile thinned, Mazza was slow to get up, the damage already apparent...
...Henson's HBO kids' show had plenty of fun--original music, painful puns and a talking trash heap--but it also took on weighty matters (courage, honesty, self-discovery) with sophistication and tenderness. It did emotional education as well as Sesame Street imparted the ABCs. And the regular dispatches of Fraggle explorer Uncle Traveling Matt from the strange realms of "outer space"--that is, the world of humans--reminded kids that people could be the most outlandish creatures of all. --By James Poniewozik