Word: hoard
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...reported that the incident was sparked by a search for contraband in Korans. Those searches, GTMO authorities say, are only carried out by interpreters, detainees or other Muslims, never by guards themselves. Two prisoners tried to commit suicide on May 18 by swallowing antianxiety medication they had managed to hoard...
...entire phenomenon might even be working on a more telescoped time frame. Some scientists have suggested that the womb of a mother who is malnourished during pregnancy may simulate "famine-like" conditions for the fetus. That may "predispose the baby to hoard nutrients," explains Paul Zimmet, professor of diabetes at Monash University. "Those changes persist in adult life and are reflected in obesity or diabetes...
...Averell should expect the unexpected. “What he should do, is not spend any of [the money],” Eirich said, “find the old air mattress he had been sleeping on, and then stuff it with all 500,000 singles. He could hoard it and become a Howard Hughes-esque recluse, though with his hair and beard, I’m not sure we’d really notice the change.” —Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
...themselves back online for a few days until the censors catch up. Women in Iran, an assertive website carrying news and reports about women's issues, switched from com to a org address after being blocked, was filtered again and is now accessible as net. Activists in Iran now hoard backup domain names, although they have recently hit an unexpected wall: Iranian Web developers say that U.S. domain providers have stopped selling addresses to Iranian Web clients, claiming the sales contravene U.S. economic sanctions against Iran. As a result, some activists are investigating the possibility of running their sites through...
DaimlerChrysler has also paid the price for its mismanaged global ambition. Two successive chief executives, Edzard Reuter in the 1980s and Jrgen Schrempp in the '90s, aggressively pursued visions of international growth and diversification and financed them by tapping into the cash hoard Mercedes had built up over decades. In the process, the company, which once prided itself on its provincial roots in Baden-Wrttemberg, acquired a worldwide scale and presence in both cars and trucks--and bought some absolute dogs. That included a near bankrupt household appliance company (AEG), a teetering airplanemaker (Fokker) and a 37% stake...