Word: smoked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Investors seemed to agree with this writer that of the three, the third statement was the one most likely indicative of a worried Fed head blowing smoke up a certain unmentionable orifice, in hopes of making all our dreams come true...
...Getting that sort of rise out of the market?or from Japanese consumers?today would take a little magic. What's certain is that Koizumi cannot depend on the smoke and mirrors favored by his predecessors. For most of the past decade, Japan has stuck like rust to its failed formula for growth, shoveling public funds into ludicrous projects like unneeded dams and highways to nowhere. Not only did the government tap tax revenues for these projects, but also pensions and the $10 trillion in personal savings kept in accounts at the post office. Japanese have had enough of that...
...Sumatra is a prime example: between the dusty, trashy port town of Dumai and the city of Medan some 10 bumpy hours by car to the north, the eye catches on the bare-bones shacks with their thatched roofs and cleanly swept earthen yards, smarts through the smoke of fires that eclipse the midday sun and loses focus after miles of palm oil and rubber plantations. The only constant is a Caltex pipeline, gray and monotonous, elevated just high enough so that families have to climb either under or over it to reach their homes from the road...
...also never bored. At slow moments, we argue politics with Richie, the conservative cook from Brooklyn whose quotable quote about Clinton was “how could you like for president a man who doesn’t have the common sense to know how to smoke pot?” (Richie really, really wants to see a Harvard party and talk politics with us. I wonder if he knows what he?...
...aircraft took off before dawn they had their lights on, and it was like the sky was filled with fireflies. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. In formation, the propeller engine of the plane ahead of you makes a smoke stream. To avoid it, I was flying a little bit higher than the aircraft in front of me. I was near the end of the second group. The leader was at 3,000 m. Gradually, the other planes were each a little bit higher. I was at 3,500 m. I felt like a shepherd watching...