Word: spun
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...situation across southern Arizona has spun so far out of control that many on the border believe a day of reckoning is fast approaching, when an incident--an accidental shooting, multiple auto fatalities, a confrontation between drug and people smugglers--will touch off a higher level of violence. And the nightmare scenario: some resident frustrated by the Federal Government's refusal to halt the onslaught will begin shooting the border crossers on his or her property. As a rancher summed up the situation: "If the law can't protect you, what do you do?" Everyone, it seems, is armed, including...
...enable GM to trim its hourly workforce in the U.S. - which approached 500,000 during the late 1970s - to around 80,000 or less, according to Sean McAlinden of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition, the hourly payroll at Delphi, the supplier company GM spun off in 1999, could be trimmed from 34,000 today to about...
...highly unusual storm for this time of year and, and while it may not seem like it, we were actually extremely lucky," said senior meteorologist Ed Shimon. "Had the atmosphere been just a little more unstable, with this mix of cold and hot air, that instability could have spun up a storm like we saw in May of 1999 in Oklahoma City, when that city was just devastated. These were some of the strongest rotations I've ever seen...
MATT LEBLANC JOEY'S GIG: NBC's Joey returns this week. The buzz: Television's most hyped spin-off has spun out. It's time for Joey to turn in his SAG card...
...strong gust of wind knocked over a pole from the restaurant’s awning at around 1 p.m. The canopy twisted and spun off, smashing into a glass wall below and spraying shards onto about half of the customers in the restaurant, according to several witnesses. One woman was sent to the emergency room with non-life-threatening cuts to the cheek...