Word: spun
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...episode 607 of South Park, Butters, in his guise as Professor Chaos, dreams up a host of insidious schemes-blocking out the sun, decapitating a South Park statue, selling the town a monorail-only to be told that these had already been spun out on a certain animated TV series. "How come every time I think of something clever," Butters asks, "The Simpsons already...
Mexico's drug war had produced relentless bad news for years - until this week. The headlines south of the border have been awash in a ghastly wave of bloodshed - mass executions, videotaped beheadings, rocket-grenade assaults on police stations and newspaper offices - that has all but spun out of the government's control and saddled Mexico with one of the hemisphere's worst crises of civil violence. There have been 1,300 drug-related murders recorded in Mexico already this year, compared to some 2,000 for all of last year. And so, there was cautious optimism over reports that...
...best public relations a trust fund can buy. Some of the boys grew from being spoiled and bratty--belittling the help, once chasing the cook up a tree at Hickory Hill--into full-blown debauchery, driving fast, drinking hard, club hopping like wild men. Most of this got spun by family retainers into the playful high jinks of a raucous clan. But the escapades got seamier over time and the spinning harder: a joyride with Joe Kennedy II left a young woman paralyzed after an accident on Nantucket. Bobby Jr. was arrested for possession of heroin. David died...
Eliminating early admission is a significant step in reforming a college admissions process that has spun out of control in recent years. It also creates new possibilities for reaching out to promising students who might not otherwise consider Harvard...
...commune. "There weren't networks," says Becky Hunter, 55, wife of the well-known pastor Joel Hunter of Orlando-based Northland, a Church Distributed. "There were denominational groups and retreat-type things." The Web, she says, offers more immediate and constant support. Hunter is president of the GPWN, spun off from the Global Pastors Network five years ago. "When we started researching other resources, we found there was just remarkably little available for the wife of the pastor. Our issues were so similar yet so private"--issues that as Christian women they might have discussed with their pastor, were they...