Word: knitting
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...prevent weapons of mass destruction from crossing our borders, the new Homeland Security Agency must knit together America's border-control services, increasing the number of vehicles and cargo containers inspected at our entry points. Inspectors must be focused on the most likely targets and trained to carry out their missions with the least possible disruption to international commerce. Though the agency should not have intelligence-collection responsibilities, it should be able to command special priority in focusing intelligence on threats to the homeland, so that crucial information gets where it needs to go, and gets there on time...
...long line for filing missing-persons reports, an elderly couple holds hands and stares straight ahead, not speaking. A pregnant woman in a brown knit dress shifts her weight from one foot to the other. And Felipe Oyola, 24, and his mother-in-law Nelida Rivera fill in a form that more than 4,900 other families have filed since Sept. 11. Name: Adianes Cortez-Oyola. Birthday: Aug. 9, 1978. Marital status: Married--on March 25, 2000 (in St. Agatha's Church in Brooklyn; she and Felipe planned it all themselves...
...been its key player, facilitating deals between buyers and sellers who often like to keep their identities from one another. It is a high-pressure business, with inhuman hours and often with millions of dollars riding on a phone call. One source of Cantor's success is its close-knit character. Many of the veteran brokers had worked together for years, and the intense atmosphere and enormous financial responsibility bred deep friendships...
...quite. In reality, much of the Koizumi story?and a sizeable chunk of his persona?has been carefully airbrushed out of his public profile. Few realize that the effervescent election campaigner is in fact a loner, isolated from all but a tight-knit circle of longtime advisers; or that the New Age reformer is an old-fashioned nationalist at heart, influenced by some of the country's most extreme right-wing politicians; or that the man with the seemingly natural empathy for people is, in his private life, aloof and cold, prone to putting career before family. And only...
...tight-knit core of advisers who would guide him for three decades was already in place, led by his elder sister, Nobuko, who ran his Diet office; his younger brother, Masaya, who runs his Yokosuka home office; and Iijima, the political operative who takes care of his media and campaign strategies. What Koizumi lacked was the vital player in every politician's entourage: there was no Mrs. Koizumi. In 1977, the inner circle presented him with dozens of photos of potential spouses, which he stacked high on his parliamentary office desk. The one that caught...