Word: shells
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...visit foreign countries or live in them who have been hammered by the dollar's decline. TIME readers, being sophisticated folk, will know that you never, ever take a taxi from Heathrow Airport into central London. (You jump on the express train instead.) Less savvy travelers now have to shell out the equivalent of $100 for the joys of being stuck in west London's traffic. The New York Times recently reported that Irish immigrants to the U.S. who had decided to return home were discovering that their dollar savings didn't go far. The cash that you get from...
...past year, the city government has been excruciatingly slow in making safety on the Cambridge Common a priority. While poor lighting and a lack of emergency callboxes make a walk through the park unnecessarily dangerous, not even the rash of gropings over the past year could convince Cambridge to shell out the cash for security upgrades. The UC maintains an official liaison to the City of Cambridge, but the sluggish pace of the negotiations only underlines the need for a directly-elected Harvard affiliate with governmental power. A year after the first in a string of sexual assaults, Harvard finally...
Insurgents set booby traps throughout the city. One type of those improvised devices is made by wiring a cell phone to an artillery shell and burying it in the street. The device is detonated by dialing the phone...
Even at home, Beijing has faced setbacks. In August a consortium led by oil giant Shell pulled out of a just-finished gas pipeline--running 2,730 miles from the western deserts to Shanghai-- after the firms decided their returns would be too small. A planned oil pipeline covering the same distance has seen no takers. Then, last month, Shell and Unocal backed out of a multibillion-dollar project to tap gas fields under the East China...
...million Estimated amount Shell spent for the installation last week of the first hydrogen pump at a public U.S. gas station, in Washington...