Word: runaways
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...most laughable claims in modern political history, saying he had "not been convicted of anything," despite the federal court result. But Alaskans may have bought his contention that the case, decided thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., was a noxious mix of prosecutorial misconduct and a runaway jury. Helping Stevens' argument was the revelation this week that a juror who vanished during the trial ostensibly to attend a family funeral had actually skipped out to watch a horse race in California. While the incident may not clear Stevens' legally, it could have obscured matters in the court of public...
...what novels have always done: serve as guides in a confusing world. "Suddenly, everything has changed so much," says novelist and publisher Namita Gokhale. "So people use these books to try to find where they're located in all this." And that has made the new pop fiction a runaway success. Helped additionally by low prices (novels are priced around $5) and new distribution channels (the books are sold on street corners and in department-store chains like Big Bazaar, not just in conventional bookstores), first-time authors are moving more than 20,000 copies a year...
...There’s a very powerful higher education lobby that circles the wagons,” Welch said. “But what I see is that more members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are growing increasingly concerned about what they see as [the] runaway cost [of] tuition...
...ineptitude. Crippling corruption? Check. Homegrown terror movements? Check. Protectionist policies that dissuade foreign investment? Check. But in recent years, Indonesia's leadership has matured. In a region where one nation's political system is still reeling from a military coup (Thailand), another's top economic advisers are confounded by runaway inflation that's threatening much-vaunted growth (Vietnam) and the politics of a third is mired in racial recrimination (Malaysia), Indonesia - led by its first-ever directly elected President - has emerged as Southeast Asia's unlikely star...
...both children and adult. "We have cases of children fainting because of hunger," says Samson Chauke, a teacher at a nearby school. As growing numbers of students have dropped out due to hunger and the inability of families to pay the fees, teachers - whose wages are rendered pitiful by runaway inflation - are also abandoning the school in order to work the illegal diamond mines in nearby Marange. At one market in Mutisinazita, a bucket of maize meal was last week selling for 20 trillion Zimbabwe dollars (about $13), four times the monthly salary of an average civil servant...