Word: rugs
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...secure for every person the right to a free public education. Unz’s proposal would undermine this education at a time when bilingual students are already facing dismally high failure rates on the state’s high-stakes MCAS exam. Voters should not allow the rug to be slipped out from under the feet of those who are just learning to stand...
...every few minutes, "are you happy?" "Yes," I would nod. The man would beam back, "I am very happy." As night fell, I found myself holding a commander's two-way radio and talking to other leaders in the area, which elicited howls of delight from my hosts. A rug was placed on the floor and we ate dinner with some commanders. The Taliban's larder is far superior to any other in Afghanistan and we gorged ourselves on several different types of mutton curry scooped up with nan. After the lower ranks were fed, we were shown...
...informal Islamic banking network that has operated for generations in Asia and the Middle East. Hawala, Hindi for "in trust," links brokers around the world who advance funds to depositors on a handshake and, sometimes, a password. In remote areas, a broker may have little more than a rug and a phone. In larger cities, including some in the U.S., brokers often operate from the back of a store. With no wire transfers, balance sheets or financial statements, hawala leaves no trail for law enforcement to follow. It's like the Mob, says William Wechsler, a former National Security Council...
Bathed in the television's fiery glow of images from the World Trade Center explosions, Pakistani banker Anar Khan turned to his four young sons curled up next to him on the rug. "See? Evil brings evil upon itself," he exulted. "This is Allah's punishment for the wrong that America has done to Muslims." It is easy for Khan to understand the mentality of the airline hijackers who unleashed their apocalyptic destruction on New York and Washington. He can comprehend how 19 educated men, despite having seen the world in all its wondrous multiplicity, can crash airliners into skyscrapers...
...Durham says, In ways, you can see how the school was trying to sweep everything under the rug...