Word: stringing
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Among his friends, Michael is no longer the chump because now he's buying a new house, freshly marked down, in Hidden Springs, a Pleasantville-esque string of subdivisions tucked into the Boise foothills. The conscientious people who were prudent with their money are buying a nicer home. There's almost something quaint about it. Quaint and good...
...Taliban, was apparently killed in a strike by a U.S. drone. And on Saturday Aug. 8, Indonesian authorities reported that Noordin M. Top, the country's most wanted terrorist, was probably killed during a police raid, ending a years-long manhunt for the Malaysian believed responsible for a string of bomb attacks in Jakarta and Bali in recent years. In a dramatic shootout broadcast on national TV, police surrounded and fired shots at a small house in Temanggung in central Java, where the fugitive had been holed up for the past two days. Police have yet to confirm officially...
...Looking only at reform elements like age bands, universal mandates and subsidies, one can easily see just how potentially fragile the insurance companies' support really is. "It's like a ball, and when you start pulling on one piece of string, a lot of it unravels," says Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit health-policy research organization...
...Islamist group is not the only threat facing Nigeria. The country is one of Africa's biggest oil exporters, and yet some 70% of its people live in abject poverty. A string of devastating attacks by militants demanding a greater share of the oil wealth in the Niger Delta, in the south, has reduced oil output by a third, hitting government revenues. This week's fighting will add to the sense that the government is losing control. "The government is no longer in control of the security situation outside the main cities," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Abuja...
This is no get-rich-quick scheme. But eHow.com whose popularity has soared during the recession as DIYers seek advice on topics like "How to Run Bathroom Plumbing," will pay any Joe Blow for content. All writers are welcome, regardless of expertise or ability to string sentences together. Since 2007, the site has paid its Everyman scribes more than $1 million. A single how-to might net all of $20 a year, but the prolific can earn much more. Maria O'Brien, a stay-at-home mom in northern Virginia, has written 367 (and counting) articles, for which eHow deposits...