Word: ramming
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...Goat Heard (tahrfoundation.org) Battered Ram Provides detailed information about the threatened Nilgiri tahr, the wild goat's last remaining natural habitats and what is being done to save it from extinction. With photo gallery, directory of research papers and links to interested organizations and individuals...
...conservative Republican and a born-again Baptist who had been proud of the fact that during his three terms in Congress he?d never voted for more taxes. Now, just six months after becoming Alabama?s governor, Riley is committing the ultimate GOP heresy: trying to ram through a $1.2 billion tax increase that would hit hardest the state?s wealthiest Republicans - who enthusiastically backed him during the campaign because he promised never to do such a thing. State GOP Chairman Marty Connors is beside himself. ?It?s too big, too fast, too soon,? he gripes. Riley?s plan would...
...Congratulations to TIME for the splendid, insightful and comprehensive report on the pro-democracy demonstration in Hong Kong. You provided cutting-edge coverage of the story that earned world headlines for Hong Kong. Hats off to all of you guys for a job well done! Vernon Ram Hong Kong...
...Central People's Government." Beijing's attitude toward Hong Kong then could be summarized in one word: control. Now, because of the constraints of the Basic Law, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa and his officials?whom we should assume are essentially good people?have little choice but to ram through laws and policies that undermine the freedoms underpinning Hong Kong, so long as Beijing desires...
...politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should be built at a site in Ayodhya where a mosque once stood. The Telegraph newspaper in Calcutta ran the front-page headline hard as diamond, soft as flowers over a picture of a bare-chested Vajpayee depicted as Ram, a Hindu god. One of Vajpayee's detractors on the Hindu right admits, "It is accepted by one and all that Vajpayee is a total win-win man today...