Word: pit
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...clouds burst, the crowds gather. It's an hour before the kick-off of Kolkata's biggest sporting event and the rain keeps pouring. The pitch at the cavernous Salt Lake Stadium is now little better than a mud pit, pockmarked by spreading pools of brackish water and streaks of brown slush. Were this a cricket match, officials would have canceled proceedings and sent fans home. But this is football in the most football-crazy city in India: over 100,000 boisterous Calcuttans fill the divided sides of the stadium, one half festooned in the maroon and green of Mohun...
...project. She said that within the next two to three weeks, more network nodes will be placed on the buildings of the HSBA’s member businesses. Residents should be able to watch a Red Sox live-feed from the comfort of JFK Park, the MAC Quad, the Pit, and the Mass. Ave. corridor. Jillson has yet to receive complaints from Square business owners about the slow progress of the project. “The technology now compared to last year has changed. It’s more readily available, less cumbersome, and being patient will result...
...Africa remains divided in small countries with tiny economies we will never get out of the pit,” said Wade during his speech. “Our only chance is to build a major political and economic space so we can benefit from a large economy...
...people over 65 will nearly double from 35 million in 2000 to 69 million in 2030, the idea of a health-care trust fund may soon become a model for other companies, particularly those in other struggling Rust Belt industries with lots of retirees. "It's not a bottomless pit, which is what employers are afraid of," says Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a health-care-policy group for FORTUNE 500 companies. That fear has pushed many companies out of providing retiree health benefits; only 33% of companies with more than 200 employees offer them...
...shelf stocker's presumed victims were among Moscow's homeless, lured into a game of chess in a suburban park with glasses of vodka and mournful tales of Pichuzkin's beloved but deceased dog; then they were clubbed on the head with a hammer and tossed into a sewage pit to drown, if they were not dead already...