Word: smokes
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...each team to solve, Heinsman said. When the teammates figure out a solution, they submit it to a bank of judges. When a team finds a solution, contest staff bring a color-coded balloon, with one color for each problem solved. Other teams watch for the proverbial white smoke...
...consumers are really so savvy, and can see through the smoke and mirrors, why are these marketing strategies so successful...
...about to organize the information from the trial in a methodical way, said Collins. During the moments when their minds were off the case in the jury room on the sixth floor of the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., he said, the jurors were lusting after the half-smoke sausages sold by the hotdog vendor in the courtyard below...
...downtown square, the protesters, who chanted "Russia without Putin!" "Down with the corrupt authorities!" and "Revolution!" broke through the police cordons and marched down Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg's main avenue. Squad cars wedged in the angry marchers ranks, and riot police moved in, wielding clubs and throwing smoke grenades. It took several hours to disperse the crowds and restore police control over the area. The authorities later claimed that 50 protesters were detained. The Other Russia, however, states that at least two hundred protesters were taken into custody and beaten, with hundreds more violently mishandled in the street. Sergei...
...Popular discontent in Russia rises along with prices and utility rates. And in the absence of legitimate expression, it pours out into the street, where protests are met with clubs and smoke grenades of the riot police. Two years ago, the authorities spent $12 billion to quell a nationwide wave of protests, caused by abrupt canceling of social benefits, in order to prevent the dissent from growing into conspicuous melees in main cities like the one this weekend. But the money doled out then has been now superseded by the growing costs of life. And a new such massive financial...