Word: seconded
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Lawn Chair Larry's unlikely flight spawned many imitators. In 2008, Oregon man Kent Couch successfully took his own balloon-powered lawn chair on a 235-mile (378 km) trek across the state, traveling across the Idaho state line. This was Couch's third trip - his second stopped just short of the state line, while the first ended with him parachuting from the chair after popping too many balloons...
...This was his second tour overseas," said Laura while sitting at her dining-room table. "His unit went to Uganda for a year in 2007. That's where he created his nonprofit, the ClearWater Initiative, so people there would have something we all take for granted - clean water...
...fense. Jean is just 23 and a little over a year into his law degree. Appointing him to such a high-profile position smacks of nepotism, cronyism and regal high-handedness, say Sarkozy's critics. "Who for an instant thinks that the nomination of a boy entering his second year of legal studies to the presidency of an institution that manages La Défense's billions is based entirely on his merit and not at all on his last name?" asked Joffrin's Tuesday editorial in the daily Libération. "Our monarchy was elective; is it now hereditary...
...president of the conservative group in regional council was simply the work of officials loyal to Nicolas Sarkozy seeking to boost his son's career. That rightist domination within EPAD, opponents say, will similarly produce a pro forma election of Jean by people who view him as the second coming of his father - and the right's potential star in years to come. "This is the appropriation of a country by one family and clan," said Socialist legislator Michèle Delaunay. "The Sarkozy clan is taking the entire region into its grip, on the money vault that the richest...
...entirely unexpected," laments Salima Hashmi, an artist, professor of art, and life long Lahori. "We can no longer say that it's just the northwest part of Pakistan. This is now also about Punjab, one surmises. A second chapter in the development of militancy in Pakistan has opened." More forcefully than ever before, the last ten days have raised urgency about the threat that Pakistan's heartlands face from within. "This is not something that we can blame on other forces," adds Hashmi. "It has been fostered by our internal politics and strategy...