Word: sheerness
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...However, it is the stories of Taylor's sheer brutality that are likely to be the most damning testimony. As many as 250,000 people were killed in the blood-soaked conflict that embroiled Sierra Leone and Liberia, even spreading into Ivory Coast and Guinea. During the course of the trial, the court - sitting in the Hague for fear of stirring up fresh unrest in Sierra Leone and Liberia - was told about how RUF rebels enslaved and mutilated thousands of civilians, who had their hands and arms severed. Some of the worst crimes were carried out by gangs of child...
...into the murky waters, not knowing that just two, three feet under the surface there were gigantic tree trunks stabilizing this whole thing. I didn't see them; I dove down headfirst and brushed it with a shoulder. That could have killed me, but it would have been from sheer stupidity, and I would hate to die from stupidity. (Watch a video of the Q&A with Herzog...
...sheer complexity of the stimulus measure makes it difficult to bird-dog. Though the Recovery Act was a single piece of legislation, it included thousands of funding streams for tens of thousands of projects. About $144 billion is allocated directly into state coffers for continuing existing programs that have been heavily burdened by the recession, like Medicaid. Hundreds of billions more have been set aside for tax cuts and continuing benefits to the poor and unemployed. The most visible part of the program, and the most politically explosive, is the roughly $152 billion for infrastructure investment, for which...
...transportation funding in one $27 billion highway fund will go not to maintaining existing roads but to building new highways or adding lanes to old ones. Kentucky, where 38% of roads are in poor condition, is spending 88% of its stimulus money on new additions. Then there is the sheer scale of the challenge. In many of these same states, the biggest concern is not the type of stimulus spending but the amount of it. "Of course it's not creating enough jobs," Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, says of the stimulus. "We're not going to have enough...
...Deira would be a classy hotel anywhere. But part of its allure is its sheer contrast with the rest of Gaza, which has been ravaged by three years of economic blockade, a fratricidal war among Palestinians and, seven months ago, a full-bore Israeli air, land and sea assault that lasted 22 days. After traversing Gaza's blasted urban landscape, you arrive at the hotel like a desert wanderer plunging his head into oasis waters. With its cool shadows and an inner courtyard trapping pools of light, the Al Deira has an Ottoman elegance. You're led to your room...