Word: nesting
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...says. To their credit, officials at the Oregon State Hospital had neatly numbered and catalogued each cremated patient. But for decades they kept the storeroom of canisters a secret from the outside world. Even when Milos Forman shot the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the hospital, and used several patients as his extras, the room's existence wasn't revealed...
Miller’s performance came on a night when the Crimson had three forwards out injured and a fourth limited. Freshman Andrew Van Nest is out for the season with a shoulder injury and junior Pat Magnarelli has not played this season due to a knee injury—though he may begin a comeback attempt soon. Senior Evan Harris missed his third straight game, while freshman Keith Wright was not near 100 percent physically in his second game back from illness...
...with the Great Depression II: Greater and Furiouser? approaching, this was a year of massive risk-taking. At every turn, we used chaos as an opportunity to take the nest egg and gamble it--but only after leveraging that nest egg with complicated derivatives that would famously come back to bore the crap out of us. (See the top 10 everything...
...being laid off. The lack of safety nets demands frugality, as does Chinese cultural tradition that all but dictates that working children care for their parents as they age. Even ad-agency chief Wang takes care of her parents. This requires Chinese to accumulate very large nest eggs, particularly because China's longstanding one-child policy means there is often just one offspring caring for two parents...
...intelligence infrastructure that Patil leaves behind is a hornet's nest of competing interests and gaps in coordination. There were warnings earlier this fall based on telephone intercepts of an attack targeting the city, originating in Pakistan and using a sea route from Karachi, the same route used by those who smuggled explosives into the city before the 1993 Mumbai blasts. That intelligence was passed on from the foreign-intelligence bureau to the domestic-intelligence bureau and then, according to procedure, to the state police. But there was no follow-up with the local Mumbai police, who would have been...