Word: scoot
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...What's driving India's mania for malls? Bakshi of McDonald's says real estate speculation is one major factor: "In many cases, it's the 'loot-and-scoot' model. You see an opportunity, you build a mall, you sell out and leave." Mall builders like Unitech and DLF acknowledge that there has been speculative mall building, but blame it on smaller competitors that lack their long-term vision. Instead of putting a check on the mall-building glut, says Bakshi, India's state and local governments are all too happy to encourage it. "Governments sell land because they...
...next day swings between moments of rest, watching entranced as a platypus glides underwater alongside us, and the chaos that ensues when a branch catches one raft as we scoot over a short drop, pitching three of us head first into the churning current and ripping the raft's floor. But we're quickly succumbing to the river's magnificence; its sweet-tasting, clear waters, tinged brown by the tannin leaching off plants, surging and meandering between banks crowded with a jostling throng of trees, tall leatherwoods dropping white blossoms into the foam-covered eddies. Thick forest stretches away...
...stage, Coastwatch officers, such as Steve "Loopy" Guerin, have a fair idea what they'll find. "From the standard of dress and the type of boat, we can usually tell where the crew are from." A typical FFV has several options for escape. Depending on its location, it can scoot back to the high seas or to the P.N.G. side of the fishing zone, or at least ditch its catch and equipment. In this case, the 7-m wooden fishing boat (designated a "Type 3") is too far inside Australian waters to flee. Instead, the Customs crew thinks, it will...
...Mary Grace?s favorite attraction of the day was ?Tom Sawyer Island.? This was because, in Injun Joe?s Cave, she could scoot ahead and hide and then scare her daddy or mommy when them came around a curve. This she can do at home, for free. I don?t know where this fits into my roller-coaster-dynamics argument - go ask Malcolm Gladwell - but I?m sure it fits somewhere...
Skating behind the goal to handle the puck, Grumet-Morris attempted to scoot the pass along the boards left of the net. But the pass was intercepted by Eaves, setting up the score at 4:25 of the first...