Word: strays
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...aged Afghan woman turned up at our office gate. She appeared educated; at one time she probably belonged to the upper-middle class strata of her society. She looked hungry. She appeared desperate. She had a note written in English begging for a teaching job. Two days ago a stray bomb hit her house. Her sister and mother died. She has nobody...
...worry about.) The wall space is needed for Ridge's organizational chart, for he will have to coordinate the activities of more than 40 federal agencies--and an unknown but much larger number in state and local governments. On Capitol Hill, if Ridge is ever foolish enough to stray into the building where he served 12 years as a member of the House, 26 full committees of Congress and 17 subcommittees deal with homeland-security matters...
...ridge, trailing a cloud of sand to a crunching back-front touchdown, it's all too apparent I missed my calling. I bounce along the ridges at 70 km/h, graffiti-ing the sand left and right with an exuberant four-wheeled scrawl. Leaning in and cresting another ridge, dodging stray camels and shrubs, I glimpse an endless sea of pristine dunes to pulverize. Even after I'm beckoned in and take off my helmet, I can't swallow my grin. Perera explains I'm merely the latest in a long line to go buggy berserk. "Five years ago, nobody ever...
Still, Hoffa can't stray too far from the Democrats. Bush has sided with labor when its interests coincide with those of business, but the President is unlikely to abandon his corporate backers on such issues as trade and workplace safety. Hoffa knows that. But playing two sides is already paying dividends...
Except for unpredictable legal cases and possibly a stray tenure case, Summers should be able to focus on getting ready for the fall, when official meetings of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard’s other schools start up again, and the questions regarding Summers’ policies will begin to be answered...