Word: steams
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...first quarter - is unmistakably good news for China's major trading partners, particularly those countries in Asia that export raw materials to China's manufacturers. Imports of semifinished industrial metals in the quarter soared by more than 35%, as China's stimulus-driven infrastructure build-out gathered steam. Overall fixed-asset investment picked up 33.5% year over year, a pace that recalled the country's glory years of double-digit economic expansion. (See pictures of life on the fringes of the People's Republic...
...came to deliver the first speech at the newly created Kennedy School Institute of Politics. When he refused to debate an anti-war spokesman brought on campus by Students for a Democratic Society, McNamara was blockaded in Quincy House and was forced to sneak out using decoys and underground steam tunnels...
...While Prescott's outrage isn't surprising, it may serve a purpose beyond releasing steam. Following the Daily Telegraph's monthlong series on British parliamentarians' use of taxpayer money to pay off personal expenses - from building a duck pond to cleaning a moat - the political classes may sense an opportunity to turn the tables on the British press and thereby redeem themselves, at least a bit. (See the top 10 most outrageous British expense claims...
...seat, and you sweat everything out." She asks Todd how hot it usually gets. "220 [degrees Fahrenheit] is too hot," he says. "190's good." "Too hot for me," she says. "But these guys do it. So, everybody comes in after fishing and gets buckets of water, and the steam lets you sweat everything out, and it's all guys and it's all gals. That's the tradition...
Coca itself evokes an American western boomtown, with the equivalent of saloons and other entertainment for the Halliburton or Texaco employee looking to blow off steam. Across from the canoe dock stands a large military casino, funded by—no surprise—oil. A large amount of oil revenue (the local guides claim 40 percent) is funneled directly into Ecuador’s large military...