Word: prongs
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...look normal without looking out of touch and out of place. They'd discussed that issue earlier in the week, but no one was thinking of shutting down the China trip. It had been decided days ago that China and Russia were more important to a multi- year, multi-prong campaign than any heat taken from a few days away from Washington. European officials had flocked to the White House to be seen with Bush, boasted senior aides, but the APEC audience was tougher. Some of the 21 member countries like Malaysia and Indonesia had shown support...
Pete Dube, who is from Buffalo, Wyo., pulls up in a pickup hauling a trailer with six horses and looks out across his land. In 1995, when he bought the 5,000-acre ranch in the Middle Prong Valley of the Powder River basin, nothing much disturbed the landscape except the deer, the pronghorn and the few cows that grazed the rolling hills and valleys...
...Conrad gets ready to grill Daniels, Republicans are putting together a public counterattack of their own, which will be two-pronged. First, "we'll say we're working on it," explains a senior Senate GOP aide. Tax relief is on the way and it will help strengthen the flagging economy. The second prong will put the ball in the other side's court: Democrats complain that the tax cut isn't letting them have enough money to spend on social programs. So they have two choices. They can cut spending or raise taxes. "We'll be asking them this question...
...metals can be ground on a submarine's grinding machine because other metals can leave a residue on the wheel, triggering imbalances that could lead to its dangerous disintegration. Only Navy-approved multi-outlet power strips are supposed to be brought onboard. Every clothes iron must have a three-prong plug...