Word: stall
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...needs money to pay for his trip, and manages to raise $2,000 - as much as an average Somali earns in three or four years - by selling the small vegetable stall his parents passed on to him before his 20th birthday. He gets advice on the best escape route from someone in the neighborhood whose relative has just made the journey. In the past, fleeing Somalis would travel by boat through the Suez Canal, but now that Egypt has tightened its border controls, the preferred route is overland to Libya, then by boat. His mother tries to talk...
Baird and his subway-musician colleagues didn’t want to find out. During their preliminary organizational meeting at the Middle East, they scrambled to stall the regulations before the Dec. 1 deadline fell. They designated six subcommittees to manage everything from legal action to fundraising...
...plans to write off up to 30% of the principal, extend the payment periods to a maximum of eight years and redeem the credit records of debtors. Some card companies have started their own debt-forgiveness programs; these have the unintended consequence of creating an incentive for borrowers to stall for a bailout rather than pay up. "Some debtors are telling our phone operators that they're not going to pay their debt," says Kim Young Son, director of credit-card risk management at Kookmin Bank. "There is a serious case of moral hazard breaking...
...didn’t have an answer for them. I don’t have one for you, either. I don’t have a stall in that dressing room that oozes with brains, character and millions of dollars in NHL potential. I am not one of their coaches, either...
...those “silly” things are natural for me, because these are uncomfortable, time-consuming things that women do all of the time. It reminds me of a poster for some play I saw recently in a Science Center bathroom stall: “Bathrooms are places where women become themselves,” is what I remember of the quote. Drag Night furthers the idea that there is this “right” kind of femininity (I always wondered where I got my body—now I know it’s from...