Word: lock
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...Democratic proposal, the College Opportunity for All Act 2005—cosponsored by Reps. George Miller, D-Calif., and Dale Kildee, D-Mich.—would allow students to lock in loans at a fixed percentage when interests rates are low or borrow at a variable rate capped at 6.8 percent during periods of higher interest...
Costa Rica, this is your compassion, your solution to the inconvenience of human frailty: hide them, stuff them under beds, lock them in closets, stow them away in the attic, like household mess that has been hastily shoved out of sight right before the company arrives. Let them wander the streets in the darkness, in the rain, alone...
...Every night, Lucy, who lives down the street from a zoo, climbs out of her bedroom window to hear one more bedtime story from the animals. Young viewers will be so transported by the exotic creatures, they'll hardly notice the gentle lessons. Just be sure you lock their windows. --By James Poniewozik
...gentle farmer named Batà (Claudio Bigagli), pretty Sidora (Enrica Maria Modugno) is startled to hear the baying of an animal in torment. It is Batà, who, as he explains, suffers fearful convulsions each night of the full moon. A scholar of his own illness, Batà instructs Sidora to lock herself away from him, but as the moon waxes he breaks through a window and attacks her. Come the next full moon, Sidora is prepared for the worst and the best. Her handsome cousin Saro (Massimo Bonetti) will protect her and, if God hears her prayers, fulfill the desperate passion they...
...Provincetown-Boston Airline, the commuter line flying in many family members and guests, was induced to lock up its computers a day before the wedding so that no passenger agents could divulge the guest list...