Word: scrap
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...story-telling with his discussion of recent events. He reminded his listeners of Nelson Mandela’s limited means of keeping hope alive during his 27-year captivity, when he and fellow prisoners continued with such small acts of hope as passing from cell to cell a forbidden scrap of newspaper that an absent-minded guard had dropped on the floor. Or Rosa Parks’ long-time involvement in local civil rights projects long before her famous refusal to move to the back...
...over your profit into your next residence--and your next and your next, deferring taxes on gains each time. There may still be consequences to those old sales when you sell your present house. Except for your current residence and the previous one (for which you should save every scrap of paper), you don't need the full inch-high file for every transfer, suggests St. Louis, Mo., attorney Lisa Pool Byrne of Blumenfeld, Kaplan & Sandweiss. For each sale, just pull out and save the one- or two-page closing statement or, for more recent transfers, the Real Estate Settlement...
...toes this summer with a sandal emblazoned on the insole with a reverse image of Hindu's most revered symbol, the Om. After selling just 282 pairs, the British company withdrew the offending beachwear and apologized. They should have known better: last year, American Eagle Outfitters had to scrap its Ganesh sandals for the same reason...
...INDICATORS Economy Class United Airlines admitted it would "likely" scrap and replace its employee pension plans to help it exit bankruptcy. Meanwhile US Airways said it would ask authorities for the right to delay its own pension contributions as it seeks to prevent a second bankruptcy...
...threat leaked to the media, AZF vanished entirely, promising to be back. Even when a plot has been foiled and the planners have been captured, the French favor an official code of silence, reasoning that talking too much can give accomplices who may still be out there some scrap of information they need to continue eluding capture. In 2002, for example, officials withheld information discovered in a sweep of Chechen-trained jihadists planning to bomb the Russian embassy in Paris. Investigators used the undivulged leads to chase down additional members of the plot and uncover details of far greater planned...