Word: ring
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...curtains drawn against the daylight didn't ring a warning bell, the grilles covering the windows should have. But after 300 km in the glare of the Western Australian sun, the only thing to do is ditch the car, head for the nearest pub and dive into a frosty beer. Dive is the word. Up the steps, through a wooden door into a neon-lit room with battered furniture, dog racing on a couple of TVs, a pool table in an alcove illuminated by the cold blue light used in public toilets to discourage intravenous drug users...
...short term, the ordinance will hurt the citizens who are most desperate for better choices of retail outlets. In Chicago, Wal-Mart said it would scale back its plans and focus on the inner-ring suburbs. That?s not exactly a plan for the future - it might instead be a game of economic chicken...
...covert officer who tracked Hizballah, says that by the late 1990s, the CIA was watching the group to see if it might resume violence against the U.S., but it never did. Eventually, within the agency, he says, "they just weren't important." That U.S. authorities in 2002 convicted a ring in North Carolina for raising money for Hizballah by smuggling cigarettes doesn't mean the group has dispatched sleeper cells to one day attack the U.S. It means Hizballah has fund raisers here...
...Yusuf's first two albums sold more than a million and a half copies, topping the charts across the Arab world and Turkey. His latest hit song, "Hasbi Rabbi" (My Lord is Sufficient), is the top-selling ring tone in the region, heard whenever cell phones go off in cabs and cafes from Cairo to Damascus. But the real sensation is Yusuf's slickly produced, MTV-style music videos, which consistently register as the top most-requested on Middle Eastern music TV channels. The videos depict the singer as a model Muslim citizen who visits the mosque, tends...
...sentimental? Only in the best, most heart-tugging sense. Pound for Pound demonstrates that you can win in the ring--oh, does Toole have a way with that bruising fight-night action--but still lose in the parking lot outside, and that whatever the numbers say, nobody retires undefeated. Or as Chicky puts it, "When you can't even win when you win, then you ain't never gonna...