Word: huck
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...fans of rival candidate Ron Paul shout "Tax Hike Mike" over the Huck boosters, who scream "We Like Mike," and the press is jammed by the dozens in the middle, unable to get through the front door to witness the day's crucial newsmaking moment, when the Huck-a-campaign pulls off its latest Huck-a-coup - the launch of the Huck-a-burger. Yes, this is really happening...
...campaign coup de grace came on Monday, when the schedule said Huck and Chuck would "attend the launch of the Huckaburger." So ensued the mob outside the Barley House, the chanting Paul supporters, the frustrated journalists. Few were able to see the actual burger, which consisted of bison meat on a whole wheat bun with spinach and a fried pickle, according to a senior aide. But then that may be okay for the still soaring Huckabee campaign. The fact that more than a hundred people strained outside the restaurant window for a glimpse of a piece of meat was validation...
...this case is that the market for such products is so richly diverse. Not so long ago, traders in weather futures were energy producers, insurance firms and tourism ventures - almost exclusively companies that directly had something to gain or lose from a change in the weather. "Now," says Renaud Huck, CME Group's Europe associate director, "we have equity investors, hedge funds, commodity traders and weather traders." For them - and for the financial firms racing to sell products to them - global warming comes with a silver lining...
...part of the storyteller's art to reveal a single defining moment in a character's life, the inflection point at which the reader gains some insight into what makes the person tick. Huck escapes from his father and sets off down the river. Lear banishes Cordelia. Bogart reaches into his jacket pocket and gives Bergman the papers...
Public reprimands were handed to three senior officers in the chain of command on Nov. 19, 2005. Major Gen. Richard Huck, Col. Stephen Davis and Col. Robert Sokolosk were all handed letters of censure for failing to carry out their duties in sufficiently investigating the killings. The last remaining hearing in the case, scheduled for later this month, will be for intelligence officer 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was first tasked with looking into what happened on that...