Word: specked
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...announces his support for the regime. "If Saddam is going to fall, there are thousands of Saddams to replace him," he declares. Then he reaches down with his hand and smears some dust from the floor with his fingers. "Foreigners are not worthy to step on even a single speck of sand of Iraq." Then the men, who only seconds before had been happily bantering with foreign journalists, suddenly turn hostile and unwelcoming, afraid to be viewed as being friendly with the infidels...
...Osama bin Laden among them? It seemed possible last week. This dust-blown speck on the map became the target of frantic media interest after Pakistani intelligence leaked news to reporters that U.S. special forces were hunting for him around this area, and that members of bin Laden's family were somewhere across the border in Iran. An Afghan commander in Kandahar claimed that two of bin Laden's sons--al-Qaeda members said to keep within close range of their father--were caught sheltering with the Zehri tribe of Baluchistan and were now in the hands of U.S. interrogators...
Every time you add a qubit to the string, the computing power doubles. A row of 11 atoms will carry out 2,048 simultaneous calculations, and a row of 12 will do 4,096. By the time you get to just 14 atoms, a speck still far too tiny to see, you can do more calculations in tandem (16,384) than the fastest supercomputer in the U.S.--a machine at Los Alamos National Laboratory so voracious that it draws several megawatts of power...
...Sullivan, 42, owner of Sullivan Hardware shops in the Indianapolis area, is surrounded by Lowe's outlets and a Home Depot. But he steadily increases revenues 6% to 8% a year, and he books pretax margins of about 10% on $5 million in annual sales. "I'm a speck to the chains," he says, "but I do well." Over the years, he adapted his merchandise mix and pricing to cope with the big-box stores. He knows he'll never beat Home Depot and Lowe's on prices for $100-plus power tools, so he stocks a minimal quantity. Instead...
Seereeram hunted for other transactions in which Citibank had used financial instruments like those in the Trintomar deal, which, he says, "made them [Citibank] feel like they could get away with this." His chase led him to the nation of Dominica, a speck of island 300 miles north of Trinidad. Dominica depends on connecting flights on small planes from larger islands, and its minor tourist trade is struggling. The government sought bond financing from Citibank Trinidad to build Dominica's first major airport, which would be able to handle larger jets from the U.S. and Europe...