Word: scours
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...show of political testosterone intended to impress her APEC summit partners this week in Los Cabos, Mexico. She backed a controversial plan for a national ID card that will help keep tabs on bad guys. Her government also announced the deployment of 500 "secret marshals," plainclothes cops who will scour the nation looking for hoodlums. Arroyo's crackdown contrasted nicely with the foot-dragging of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, and could win her a private meeting with George W. Bush at APEC and, with luck, more financial and intelligence assistance from the U.S. But the war on terror requires more...
...July I’d wondered how long the graffiti would last. Would an administrator make the call or would a janitor simply decide to scour it down The white-out could have been removed with a fingernail...
...country indexes. A good one-shot foreign portfolio is iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA). But you could add, say, iShares MSCI South Korea (EWY), getting more exposure to a country in which many pros are overweight. Even in a bad market there are winners, and ETFs make it easy to scour the globe for them...
...close in on him, U.S. forces would need to land an inspired bit of intelligence on the more precise whereabouts of the Taliban chieftain--or else benefit from more dumb luck than they have had so far. Why not just invade and scour the area where the locals say he is roaming? "It's strong Taliban country," notes a senior U.S. military official. A blind search would be too dangerous to undertake for just...
Though Ma maintains that money is not the defining characteristic of debutantes, girls debuting in New York typically spend anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 on their dress. Most scour bridal houses and popular designers like Vera Wang to find the perfect gown. Gyllerstrom remembers that getting into her dress “was a big production...It looked like this huge Scarlett O’Hara/French Revolution dress. The train was so long they bustled it up under the dress and the way it had to be tied was so complicated that all the ties were numbered...