Word: straws
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...quickly explains that he was born in Stockholm, and is, in fact, Swedish.Big as his lead now is, he left me a double word score of my own. Miles never was known for his defense. From the “S” I generate “straw,” the familiar nickname of Simon’s brother-in-law Darryl Strawberry. With a double letter score on the “W,” I receive 24 points to get back in the game. He follows with “lute,” running...
...director of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a think tank that advocates a radical restructuring of the energy economy. Shell has become the largest seller of biofuels, he says: "We're talking about new processes for turning woody, weedy plants like switch grass and poplar--also crop waste like wheat straw--into cellulosic ethanol...
...result of competition, Hinkle said. The Kendall Square Cinema is a multiplex with similar programming, and Internet-based companies like Netflix and VideoOnDemand.com give viewers one reason fewer to buy a ticket. And, for the Brattle, which acquires many of its reels outside the mainstream, rising prices place another straw on the camel’s back. “It’s getting costlier and costlier to do the kind of programming the Brattle does,” Hinkle said. As a result, he said he places a premium on the theater’s unconventional charms...
...royals, as depicted in period portraits. The Windsor influence didn't show up elsewhere, but the pared-down styles did. At Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld sent out crisp white eyelet skirts and polka-dot blouses as a backdrop to Silvia Venturini Fendi's standout handbags - now in funky combinations of straw, plastic, canvas and patent leather. At Bottega Veneta, designer Tomas Maier paired sterling silver?ornamented velvet handbags with simple dresses in dusty shades of khaki and stone.And Miuccia Prada made a strong case for the new simplicity with her plain-Jane, drop-waisted dresses in a palette of chalk, gray...
...resistance, nationalists will gain at his expense prior to elections in 2007. A new nationalist government would be less friendly to Europe. And many believe that turning Turkey away would send a dangerous signal to the Islamic world. "We cannot afford to get this wrong," British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said last month. The alternative of finding ways to bridge West and East "is too terrible to contemplate." But there are real concerns in Western Europe over the wisdom of welcoming into the E.U. a mostly Muslim nation of 70 million people. A recent opinion poll by the Washington-based...