Word: householder
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Across the room lay a young boy whose groin was badly scalded in a household accident. Without a catheter to help him urinate, he could die, the doctors said, but no one seemed to have time to scour the town for one small enough. Doctors halfheartedly treated the man we had brought in, snaking a tube down his throat to clear the blood. Before the night was over, he was dead, and doctors held out little hope that the boy would survive. In a city with no law, the innocent and the guilty face the same harsh fate. --By Brian...
...neutralize dissidents before they became globally known, like Lech Walesa in Poland or Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. But Paya's celebrity is beginning to rival Castro's. During his visit to Cuba last year, ex-President Jimmy Carter hailed Paya in a speech broadcast to every Cuban household. Paya won the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights last December. Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize. Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival last week canceled its screening of Oliver Stone's documentary...
...advertisers, though, with its time-honored, if a touch crass, pitch that it has the richest viewers of any broadcast network. It's true. If NBC were a neighborhood, you couldn't afford to live there. Its most platinum-plated drama, "The West Wing," has an average viewer household income of over $75,000 - $10,000 higher than the second-richest show, "Ed," also on NBC. (A fact that probably kept the incessantly quirky bowling-alley drama on the air despite its middling ratings - while other shows with more viewers but fewer SUV buyers got canceled.) Zucker hammered home...
VACUUM. a) Household appliance or b) space between boss's ears during discussion of maternity leave...
...economics before writing my thesis—now I think about it as something that’s a possibility in a few years,” said Christopher J. Librizzi ’03, author of a government thesis on “Bargaining and the Division of Household Labor...