Word: smokes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Silence. Dead silence. This is bad. What's going on? Have Martians invaded Earth? Can't be, right? But it's on the radio, and the radio doesn't lie. Is that smoke I smell? Why is old lady Johnson screaming next door? Holy hell...
...bringing home the bacon for voters in bow tie-shaped district south of Houston, DeLay, under a cloud of ethics allegations and still-unresolved criminal charges, abandoned his seat mid-election in 2006, leading to a Republican succession battle that resembled a circular firing squad. Out from the smoke came Nick Lampson, a moderate Democrat who had been drawn out of his old neighboring congressional seat in DeLay's mid-decade redistricting power play. Lampson noted his family's roots in the area and his support from veterans groups and the National Rifle Association to win over voters...
...cattle grazing, but solutions are being created to allow for the use of the Amazon’s bounty without destruction. This summer the government began the profitable and heroic production of condoms from rubber tree plants. Hydroelectric dams are also being built and activities which do not produce smoke are being subsidized, like bee-keeping, fish-farming, and forest management...
...awarded small ($150 and less) sums. By rewarding more students with greater prizes for truly valuable green acts—perhaps even on a sliding scale relative to their impact—the College would show students that it’s push for sustainability is not all smoke and mirrors...
...reversal, and what does it bode for the coming days and months? Anyone claiming they know is blowing smoke. Though the brutal rout of global markets last week arose from fears the world's banking and financial markets risked total collapse in the face of the toxic credit crisis, government rescue plans detailed this week in both the U.S. and Europe mostly allayed those concerns, sparking surges on Monday and Tuesday. Market plunges since then came in the wake of negative news indicating serious slowing of American economic activity...