Word: pit
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...silence, his secret. A woman on a farm down the road called him "the Unabomber." The oldest woman in the valley, a woman in her eighties, said he had lived in the cinderblock house for forty years, on a shaggy stretch of uninhabited road beside the old gravel pit, which was filled in and covered up a year or two ago and already has vanished undetectably beneath a carpet of new pasture grass...
...producer Konami appear to be following the Pokémon formula to fuel the Yu-Gi-Oh craze. Like Pokémon, the animated TV show brings the characters and plot twists to life. Like Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh demands careful strategy to decide which cards to pit against one another. Because you need 40 cards to play the game (players download characters into a Game Boy by inserting the codes printed on real cards), it also plays to kids' penchant for collecting. And though the Game Boy version can be played alone, it's more...
...State and federal investigators as well as attorneys for the victims of Explorer rollovers are cheered by the split, because it will enable them to pit one company against the other in court. Accidents involving Firestone-equipped Explorers have accounted for most of the at least 174 deaths and more than 700 injuries that prompted Firestone to recall its 15-in. SUV tires last year. Ford faces hundreds of lawsuits that seek damages totaling more than $590 million, and the company is bracing for a report on the tire failures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Moreover, Representative...
...justice in all this activity. The advent of rock was the reason Broadway show music got shunted to the fringes of the pop-culture world. A whole generation of talented rock composers steered clear of the theater--at least, the sort of theater where the band is in the pit, not on the stage, and the audience applauds politely from its seats. From Beatlemania to Saturday Night Fever, producers have looked for ways of bringing the music of rock's classic period to theater audiences. It's a smart commercial move: at their best, these shows can lure both...
...employees trading commodities that range from Old World (crude oil, petrochemicals, steel and lumber) to New World (emission credits and derivatives). Chairman Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeff Skilling are even moving from their skyboxes to work in seventh-floor offices so they can peer down into the pit...