Word: stolen
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...Texas Parable, 11:30 a.m. E.T. Lorenzo Sadun, a University of Texas mathematics professor and Democratic precinct chairman, was canvassing his old Austin neighborhood last weekend when he spied a homemade McCain sign on a neighbor's lawn. Someone had stolen the official sign and his neighbor had been forced to improvise. "I was ashamed that my side, 'the good guys', would rip off his sign," Sadun told TIME in an email. "So I decided to replace it, partly as penance and partly to show him, and the neighborhood, that we really are the good guys." Sadun headed...
...genuinely scary thing I’ve heard again and again is how this election could be “stolen again.” “Ohio,” “Florida,” and “registration inconsistencies” keep being whispered. And to paranoid liberals—the kind who hit refresh on the DailyKos homepage every few minutes—even the recent good news for Obama can jinx the election...
...donate gold wedding rings, jewelry and heirlooms to the country, helping rebuild foreign reserves. When Indonesia tried to emulate the gold-giving trick, Suharto's daughter was mocked as she went to donate her bit of gold. Rather than applauding her, Indonesians scoffed about how much her family had stolen from the country...
Depression Hurts The end of what prosperity [Oct. 13]? For more than 20 years, working- and middle-class Americans have seen their jobs go overseas, wages diminish and savings disappear; they've had retirement funds stolen by companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, Washington, Mich...
...what prosperity [Oct. 13]? For more than 20 years, working-and middle-class Americans have seen their jobs go overseas, wages diminish and savings disappear; they've had retirement funds stolen by companies going bankrupt or merging, and health care made unavailable as a result of cost. Suggesting that borrowing to live is the cause of the Wall Street collapse when the 400 richest people in the U.S. have as much money as several million average citizens shows ignorance of the greed and avarice controlling this country. Paul A. Heller, WASHINGTON, MICH...