Word: piped
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...eminent intelligence players in Washington. His great talent is the briefing, when he sits down in secret sessions with leaders in Congress who don't always know much about intelligence analysis, and he shows how the pieces fit together, explains how things work, lays the pipe, builds the bridge...
...largesse - including programs to provide cash-strapped neighbors with cheaper access to Venezuelan oil and to build continent-wide pipelines for oil and natural gas - to create what he hopes could someday be an E.U.-style economic partnership in Latin America (though analysts like Mares nevertheless call it a pipe dream at this point...
...Brown, 7, and Quachon Brown, 4 (the two were not related), died allegedly at the hands of their parents in New York City. In February a North Carolina woman was charged with murdering her 4-year-old adopted son; investigators say she routinely beat her kids with a plastic pipe. In most states, social workers called in to deal with abusive situations face the choice of leaving a child in a potentially dangerous home or placing him or her in a sometimes equally alienating foster-care system. But Minnesota officials believe most families can be kept together and the children...
...dependent industries that had been absorbing higher costs are also beginning to suffer. Consider the chemical industry, which needs petroleum as a feedstock, or raw material, for such products as polyvinyl chloride (for plastic pipe) and polyethylene terephthalate (for soda bottles). "You see the biggest impact across the board in plastics," says Morningstar analyst Sumit Desai. Back in 2003, hydrocarbon feedstocks and energy accounted for 36% of Dow Chemical's total costs. Last year they ate up 47% of total costs, yet the company still managed an earnings increase. But Dow reported this week that first-quarter net income fell...
...more student participation in planning future events. In past festivals where the President’s Office has offered funding, student control was more limited; however, this year the dynamic of student input has changed. During the preparations for the 2003 Springfest, which featured alterna-rock band The Verve Pipe as a performer, the president’s office, in addition to the HCC, had “some input” in the artists being considered for performance, recalls Michael R. Blickstead ’05, former vice-president of the Undergraduate Council (UC). The creation of a social...