Word: mops
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Since his accomplishments, some people have been comparing Ganatra to Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting. When asked if he ever finds himself mopping floors around Quincy, Ganatra wistfully responded, “I really should mop the floors in Quincy...
...rather suddenly and for the first time in 35 years, U.S. military leaders are talking about increasing troop strength, not so much to fight wars as to do mop-up. To some politicians and commentators, the bombing of the lightly guarded U.N. headquarters in Baghdad last week was an argument for increasing not only the U.S. presence in Iraq but the overall size of the military too. Officially, the Pentagon insisted that neither was necessary. But the Bush Administration tacitly conceded that the U.S. needed help when, after the bombing, it renewed efforts to win support for a U.N. resolution...
...Phoenix) is a wheeler-dealer stationed in Germany just before the sundering of the Berlin Wall. While his stoned fellow soldiers take a lethal joyride in a tankand the camp's defenestration rate is way too highElwood makes a pretty profit running guns, drugs and 1,000 cans of Mop & Glo to the locals. Then the plot kicks...
...reason lies in the nature of the pathogens themselves. Bacteria are living organisms that, multiplying unchecked, damage bodily tissue. They can be destroyed by cutting off their life-support systems. Antibiotics defeat bacterial infections by attacking enzymes within the bacteria, allowing the body's immune system to mop them up. Viruses, however, are parasites incapable of reproducing on their own. They're inactive?that is, until they burrow into a host cell, taking over its functions in order to replicate and thereby destroying the host. Inside the body, they become vulnerable to drugs only after they invade a cell...
...British forces mop up the last remnants of Saddam’s regime, the Middle East is moving towards a historic crossroads. Across the world, fallout from the war in Iraq has increased pressure on America and Britain to push Israel and the Palestinians to renew the peace process. But in order for the negotiations to begin again in earnest, neither side must set impossible preconditions—as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appeared to do in an interview published this past Sunday, when he said that Palestinians must immediately abandon the right of return while Israel need...