Word: metallism
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...With the orange forces badly fractured, Yanukovych has forged a remarkable comeback. The metal, coal and chemical magnate hired Paul Manafort, a veteran Washington political consultant who has advised numerous prominent U.S. Republicans, to help shape his image. Yanukovych has emphasized orange revolution failings like administration infighting, sporadic food and fuel shortages, and soaring inflation. The strategy worked: in the 2006 Rada elections, Yanukovych's Party of the Regions came in first, carrying 32% of the vote...
Ever since the ancient Romans realized their plumbing was giving them gout, lead has been bad news. The plentiful-but-toxic metal has been banned by the federal government in everything from paint and water pipes to food containers and gasoline. And now, one of the poisonous element's last footholds in American culture - the ammunition used by the 25 million people who hunt for sport and food - is being targeted, as states across the country consider enacting bans on the use of lead for hunting...
...Even with hundreds of thousands of video cameras and metal detectors now installed in our high schools, extreme acts of violence on school campuses continue to be planned or carried out... Some recent crime data also suggest some ugly spikes among criminal activity by young people in major cities...
With the bunker's heavy metal lid dragged to one side, dank musty air rose up from the entrance, the forbidding gloom of the narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...
...almost missed the manhole cover beneath its layer of dirt, dead leaves and twigs. Using metal footholds, I climbed down into the gloom below and saw with some relief that the tunnel at the bottom was larger than we had feared. We would have to crouch, but not crawl. It was still a tight squeeze as we inched cautiously along the dank silent passageway, which ran for about 20 feet before turning left and descending in a gradual slant. The rock sides of the tunnel were lined with a mesh of steel bars and girders. Huge brown spiders clinging...