Word: shut
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Candidates promised to shut off their robo-dialers on Christmas to give households a few hours of heavenly peace. Beyond that, however, the few days left before the caucuses are too precious to go unexploited. Democrat Christopher Dodd is heralding his "12 Days of Results" tour, while Republican Mike Huckabee virtually wraps himself in swaddling clothes in an ad in which he reflects on "the birth of Christ," with a perfectly lighted set of shelves forming a glowing Cross over his shoulder...
...when my family moved to Bethlehem in 1949. We were Muslim refugees from the newly created Israel. Back then, nearly all the townspeople were Christian. I went to a Christian school and sang in a church choir. I loved to go to Sunday service and shut my eyes, listening to the cadences of Latin Mass--which I didn't understand--and breathing in the fragrance of incense...
Chris Carrier has been hammered with two plant closures in less than a year. First Alcoa shut its wheel-rim plant in June after more than two decades in operation, idling 365 people. Then last month Goodyear Canada did the same at its engine-hose plant, forcing 165 out of work. "It's created a great deal of turmoil," says Carrier, mayor of Collingwood, Ont., a town of 25,000 north of Toronto. "Families aren't sure how they're going to pay bills. Some have moved away." The closures mean not only lost jobs but also a loss...
...Huskies (3-5) are led by an inside-outside duo of Matt Janning (17 points per game) and Nkem Ojougboh (8.9 rebounds per game). If rebounding is indeed the key to victory, then the Crimson must shut down Ojougboh, a 6-foot-9 center...
...governments involved in the six-party negotiations with North Korea have one chief aim: to get the hermit state to abandon its nuclear weapons program. In recent months, those nations - including the U.S., Russia, China and South Korea - have made some significant strides, including agreements from Pyongyang to shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon and to disclose its nuclear activities. But for Japan, the sixth party to the talks, these diplomatic successes are threatening another of its most tenaciously held foreign policy goals: discovering the fate of 17 Japanese civilians abducted by the North between...