Word: lock
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McNamara said the door’s lock, which has already been replaced, appeared to have been forced...
...shuns the Beltway talk-show-and-cocktail circuit and, at the end of the week, usually catches the first plane he can back to his modest Yorkville, Ill., home across from a cornfield on Route 34. When he became Speaker, his security detail told him he'd have to lock his doors at night...
Some argue that Web radio listeners, once they find a station to their taste, are thenceforth deprived of the joy of musical discovery. "On Internet radio they really try to lock in to a specific interest," says Brian Turner, a program and music director at Jersey City's fiercely independent-minded radio station WFMU. "I think some of the best discoveries you make happen when you're led down an alley by accident...
...bonds or not, this is government debt - the same thing both parties were railing against just a week ago. And while neither Democrat nor Republican will be uttering the words "lock box" for a very long time, this is also the return of the kind of sleight-of-hand accountancy by which politicians put spending overruns on the federal books under a heading that grants it political immunity...
...Domenici's trial balloon was met with deafening silence by his Republican colleagues. Pry open the Social Security lock box? Not a chance, says the GOP. Democrats can't wait to blast Republicans for dipping into that trust fund. So just the opposite is happening. "People are beginning to figure out where their foxholes and gun emplacements are to be located and where they're going to start the war," a Senate Republican leadership aide tells me. "The first shots have been fired over Social Security and the economy. On the economy, Republicans have the high ground because we believe...