Word: queue
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...liter plastic jug was in his cell on the first day; when it ran out, Waddah would knock on his door and ask the guard for a refill. Once a day, the captives were taken to the toilet in groups of five. Their hands bound behind them, they would queue up at a tap just outside the toilet. One by one, the captives were untied, and they filled a red plastic bucket with water and went in. The others would wait, still fettered, while a guard armed with an old AK-47 watched them carefully...
...Darfur. How do you explain the inaction? Tutu: In the past there was a kind of indifference. The response has tended not to be as quick when things happen in Africa as, say, Bosnia. When your complexion is swarthy, you tend to be at the bottom of the queue. But let's congratulate them this time. Kofi Annan and the Security Council acted far more quickly than they did with Rwanda...
...There is one more reason that I won't be throwing eBible to the top of my "favorites" queue, however. At least for now, although other links on the site occur almost instantaneously, the money link, the one that actually takes you into scripture, is considerably slower than BibleGateway's. That may be the price you pay for all that interactivity, but for a guy who mostly wants to be able to cite chapter and verse like he actually went to Sunday school, it's a problem. I type "slow" into eBible and it reminds me that Moses was "slow...
...screening was delayed a half-hour while every seat was filled and a few dozen chairs were brought in for other spectators - while more than a hundred people in the Queue for Returns line were sent away. Noah Cowan, the festival co-director who had done his bit for Death of a President by blurbing it as "easily the most dangerous and breathtakingly original film I have encountered this year," warned the crowd that to counter illegal recording, "there will be night-vision goggling." Gabriel Range, the film's director, co-producer and co-writer, said a few words...
...trying to prepare an alcohol management plan. Money from the N.T. government has yet to reach the local council to pay the consultants needed to draw up a scheme; the demand for such social services in the Territory is so great that Borroloola is just another community in the queue. The Territory's Darwin-based head of Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Elizabeth Morris, admits that some complaints about the Borroloola Inn were not investigated for months after a licensing inspector failed to forward e-mails. But she blames most delays on an unwieldy Liquor Act (which is to be rewritten...