Word: overhangs
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Sergeant Roger Vazquez decided the bleeding attacker might still be a threat and sprinted into the street to drag him away and search him for weapons. He grabbed the man by the belt and started pulling him under an overhang. A machine gun opened up from the roof across the street, and bullets hit the dirt around Vazquez's feet. The gunman's body was stuck on the curb. "Leave him, leave him," shouted a soldier. Still Vazquez persevered, getting the man onto the sidewalk and out of the line of fire. Vazquez patted him down, taking...
...Debt Forgiveness It has long been widely accepted, even by the developed countries holding the IOUs, that some form of debt forgiveness was needed for highly indebted poor countries. Debt overhang was stifling their growth; and without growth, they would not in any case be able to repay what they owed. In 1996, the IMF and World Bank, together with the G-7, initiated a program of debt forgiveness, but in order to have their debts forgiven, countries had to meet a series of hurdles...
Many can only find shelter for the night under the overhang of the Coop or inside an ATM—a direct result, Maher says, of poor funding for the programs and facilities that provide alternatives...
...most striking of the three photos by Alexandra E. Hynes ’05 is a study of palms. A vision of some tropical spring break locale, the vertical image captures a leafy overhang that seems to float in mid-air, its ostensible support outside the bounds of the lens. The shadowed interior fronds reveal the internal structure to be hollow. The scene is similarly hollow, empty, deserted. There are two more trees, in at the fore, with one sized more like a shrub, but the viewer can just glimpse an island’s coast, and the open...
...number of men who visited the JFK building on Friday surprised Saloom—she was expecting lower numbers, she said. Standing in the shelter of the overhang, she asked men planning to register to provide a bit of information about themselves, including their health status...