Word: stripped
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...further developments in its investigation of the slaying of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace. The agency targeted Cunanan after discovering a red Chevrolet pickup truck authorities believe he stole after allegedly killing a New Jersey cemetery caretaker in May. The vehicle was found Tuesday along a crowded beach front strip a few blocks away from the spot where Versace was shot twice in the head at point blank range. The FBI also reported that Cunanan, a 27-year-old gay prostitute suspected of killing his former gay lover and three other men, had been spotted in West Palm Beach area...
Abington's statement reflects more than an educated hunch; it is the result of a semiannual CIA survey of settlement occupancy in the West Bank and Gaza. The agency's latest findings reveal a vacancy rate of 25% in the West Bank and twice that in the Gaza Strip. Those conclusions reflect a familiar reality; for years the Israelis have been engaged in settlement building in the occupied territories not because they need new housing but because they want to hold onto the land. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the survey as "false by an order of magnitude...
...even appears in a comic strip, the nationally syndicated "Jump Start," which regularly features Jones as a visiting character...
Mack says he cruised in his cab for fares coming out of the gay bars on Greenwich Village's dock strip at 3 a.m., ferried young professionals to buy heroin in the West Village's Alphabet City and once spent five hours inching through a flood with five malodorous tourists to Kennedy Airport...
...unassuming tycoon who is widely known to Westerners as C.H., has the credentials to reassure both investors and Beijing that the transition will be smooth and that Hong Kong will continue to prosper. Lee, the well-born and high-powered barrister, is speaking for those who fear China will strip away the political liberties Hong Kong has just begun to enjoy and destroy the rule of law on which its reputation as an international business center depends. Both say they want the same thing: a Hong Kong free to maintain its present way of life. But Tung's approach...