Word: ramp
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Bwaku was checking vehicles as they approached the metal bar that blocked entry to the back parking lot and the gated ramp down into the embassy's underground garage. Suddenly a truck he identified as a 3.5-ton Mitsubishi Canter sped into the access road leading to the barrier, only to be halted by a car exiting from the other direction. Suspicious, said Bwaku, of the truck's "terrible speed," he lowered the barrier. A man in a plaid shirt and baggy pants jumped out from the passenger side and marched toward him. "Open the gate," he demanded, and when...
...telling lawmakers that school was out, the week's work was over and they could go home. John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, was sitting in his hideaway, the small office he often uses for meetings on the Capitol's first floor. There is a wheelchair access ramp outside, and when he heard a strange noise in the hall, "I thought it was just somebody pushing a cart up the ramp outside the door...
...made a startling realization: I didn't enjoy being pre-med. I was never the first to rush to see the grades when they were posted. I never understood how to synthesize an ester. And I never could calculate the force and friction of an object sliding down a ramp...
...antitrust chief sees it, the computer industry is at a historic turning point. Web browsers are indeed the on-ramp to cyberspace; letting Microsoft weave its browser software into the very fabric of Windows could leave the company with an uncomfortably firm grip on the unfathomable riches of the burgeoning world of online commerce. With a browser monopoly, Microsoft could give preferential treatment to services it owns or has contracts with. Anybody wanting to reach the largest number of Web surfers would have to pass through what analysts are starting to call the Microsoft tunnel...
...that the prosecution's case is a slam dunk: there is no physical evidence tying Markhasev to the murder last January on a freeway off-ramp near Brentwood, Calif., and the only eyewitness failed to identify Markhasev in a police lineup. Most of the case will rest on the easily impeachable testimony of various drug-taking and drug-dealing associates of the defendant's, and a friend who fingered him for a $100,000 bounty offered by the National Enquirer (the friend led cops to a wooded area where Markhasev supposedly hid the gun; police indeed found a pistol...