Word: skeltering
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...helter-skelter pattern of devastation left the city studded with contrasts. The capital's tallest buildings, the Pemex Tower (46 stories) and the Latin American Tower (43 stories), both designed to sway flexibly during an earthquake, were untouched. Less than two miles away, between 50 and 60 employees of the TV network Televisa died when their five-story office building collapsed. About half a mile from that calamity, the nine-story Mexican Insurance Co. building was shattered. Next door, office workers lunched calmly last week at the unmarred Great Wall Chinese restaurant...
...factor: even optimists concede that the House will not vote on a tax bill before late October. That would leave the Senate only a few weeks to consider the complex legislation before its proposed adjournment around Thanksgiving. O'Neill said that Congress would not "rush helter-skelter" to change the 46-year-old tax code...
...movie and needed our family Jeep for production value, I said, "Mom, could you put on this tin helmet and this army surplus uniform and drive the Jeep through my shot?" And she'd drop everything, climb into the Jeep, race out behind Camelback Mountain and helter-skelter barrel through the shot, hitting the potholes, her blond hair sticking out from under the pith helmet. And I would have my "production value." My $7 film suddenly looked like a $24 film...
Once the epitome of the helter-skelter ethic of life on the lam, authorities say, the Angels of late have embraced business-school techniques to run their operations, using computers to manage administrative and financial matters and imposing strict accountability on drug dealers. Each chapter of the Angels contributes profits from its deals to a national treasury. "Motorcycle gangs have come a long way in recent years," said FBI Agent James Greenleaf. "They are much more sophisticated than most people in society would expect...
...have blamed absolutely anyone. Mann's position lacks internal logic: while on the one hand accusing the city of a rush to judgment, his film on the other hand charges Atlanta's mostly black city government with racist neglect of the crimes against minority children. To make his helter- skelter charge of injustice, Mann focuses on all the shortcomings and loopholes in the prosecution case, and belittles or simply omits evidence damning to Williams...