Word: slews
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...Terrorism Act, one man was released and four others held on alleged immigration offenses. The operation, linked to the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin three weeks ago in a nearby neighborhood, also uncovered a stun gun, a fake firearm, a CS gas canister and a slew of passports, credit cards and identity cards, many believed to be forged...
...story of the Mongols, in the words of a medieval historian, is simple: "They came, they uprooted, they burned, they slew, they despoiled, they departed." For the first half of the 13th century, the Mongols of Gen-ghis Khan ravaged China, ripped through the lands of Islam and knocked on the gates of Vienna. Their immense empire stretched from Beijing to Baghdad to Moscow. Then, without warning, the Mongols went home, leaving little behind but their reputation as the most feared conquerors in history...
...after 18 years there, he left in January 2000 to run the Agricultural Bank of China, the country's most indebted and overstaffed lender. Shang, like his counterparts at other banks, boosted profits by laying off thousands of workers and cleaned up the balance sheet by writing off a slew of bad loans. Still, his brief tenure hardly distinguished him as a trailblazing reformer destined to head the CSRC. His ex-colleague says, "It was a political appointment, and not necessarily based on merit...
Smoke from ordinary cigarettes contains thousands of chemicals. Researchers suspect that if bidis are so good at delivering one or two, they're probably just as good at delivering the whole slew. That's enough to send the idea that bidis are safe, well, up in smoke...
...Then there's Stephen Friedman, the former head of Goldman Sachs. Widely considered a shoo-in to replace Lindsay, his appointment hit a snag this week while the White House worked through a slew of undisclosed "personal and professional issues." When President Bush formally named Friedman to replace Lindsay Thursday afternoon, it was only after days of speculation that Friedman's reputation for deficit phobia - he served as a director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group whose members oppose federal budget deficits - might have caught up with him. The White House maintained throughout the delay that they were only...