Word: setup
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...Istanbul becomes “the” bastard of Istanbul. Perhaps it’s a “Fear Factor” type deal in which all of the bastards in Istanbul vie for the prized title, though it certainly could be more of a Quidditch Cup setup. I guess the only way to find out would be to actually read the thing. THE DOUBLE BIND by Chris Bohjalian A lithe blonde on a crisp spring day is pictured riding her bicycle in front of a white picket fence. It is not until one actually purchases and reads...
Beat poet William Burroughs perhaps put it best when describing his brief time at Harvard: “I hated the university and I hated the town it was in. Everything about the place was dead. The university was a fake English setup taken over by the graduates of fake English public schools. I was lonely. I knew no one and strangers were regarded with distaste by the closed corporation of the desirables...
...Vista's most immediately appealing feature.) Most people won't buy Vista at retail, but you'll feel the burn somewhere in there whenever you buy your next computer. For the Premium edition Microsoft recommends a 1Ghz processor and 1GB of RAM, as well as a respectable graphics setup, but I think you'll need quite a bit more power to get the full, smooth experience. The laptop Microsoft loaned me to test Vista had 2Ghz and 2GB, so be careful not to buy more Windows than...
...actually means is that they caught the guy, and they'd question him, and they would kill him, and they'd put a gun in his hand and say it was a shootout. So in India, at least, the word encounter in this context has come to mean a setup, a police killing...
...them averaging trips as often as once every 10 days. Two thirds of those flights happened on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, which suggest they had become a taxi service for lawmakers on the way home to their districts at the end of the week. What made the whole setup especially beautiful was the fact that disclosure requirements were a joke. Lawmakers had to file the dates they flew and amounts they paid for the travel, but not where they went...