Word: lockdown
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...what Americans everywhere have done since Sept. 11: her job. She disputed the government's right to hold her client. After the hearing, Padilla was incarcerated in the nearby Metropolitan Correctional Center--less than a mile from ground zero--where he spent 23 hours a day in lockdown. When he did leave his cell, he wore leg and wrist shackles. Judge Michael Mukasey, a conservative with a tough-but-fair reputation, was scheduled to rule on the matter on June 11, but he never got the chance. On June 10, Newman was driving to work when she got a call...
...have our own Palestinian state. Bush did clearly say that Israel would have to end its occupation of territories conquered in 1967. But he did not address how the Palestinians could begin the necessary reforms while the Israeli military has everyone in the West Bank on lockdown. It's hard to create a democratic society (or even perform basic services like getting the trash picked up) when the tanks of an occupying army are rolling through the streets...
...outcome had taken weeks of negotiation. When Israeli and Palestinian authorities consented to the deportations as a way to defuse the standoff, Israeli hard-liners and Palestinians of every stripe complained that it was a sellout. But the situation had grown desperate. The city of Bethlehem had been in lockdown since April 2; food inside the church compound had virtually run out. Eight Palestinians had been killed by Israeli gunfire, and an Armenian monk had been wounded by an Israeli sniper...
...blackout period - oh, that blackout period. It may be a pleasant thought that Ken Lay wouldn't have been able to pay back that billion-dollar loan with company stock during the lockdown. But if Bush really wanted to make things fair for workers and investors, "OK for the sailor" and "OK for the captain," as he put it Friday, he'd make a company halt all trading of its stock - Wall Street too - while a blackout period was on. Then we'd see how often those blackouts occurred - and what happened during them...
...said these questions included concerns about security guard coverage of the Houses past the current 1 a.m. UKA lockdown...