Word: stripping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...core issues - boundaries, Jerusalem, refugees, water resources, and security arrangements - had hardly been narrowed, let alone overcome. He questions whether the leadership on either side - with Olmert presiding over a shaky coalition and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas contending with the radical Islamists of Hamas who control the Gaza Strip - have the ability to "take the body politic by the scruff of the neck and shake...
...concussion summit" to tackle the growing problem of career-shortening brain injuries suffered on the football field. Older retired players, broken and broke, clamored for better disability benefits, portraying the league, its rich young players and their union as greedy. Bad player behavior--Adam (Pacman) Jones' involvement in a strip-club shooting, Vick's ties to a dogfighting ring--forced commissioner Roger Goodell to enforce unprecedented penalties for off-field incidents. Then there were tragedies: Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was murdered early New Year's Day, 2007; Washington's Sean Taylor was slain in November...
...26th). But it's also because of the demographics of the fast-growing state, which is a sharp contrast to Iowa and New Hampshire. One third of Nevada's 2.5 million people are Hispanics, Asian-Americans and blacks, according to 2004 census figures. Unions - particularly Culinary 226, which includes Strip hospitality workers - have a huge presence here. Culinary alone has some 60,000 members. Even when Hillary Clinton campaigned in Pahrump, a small town outside of Vegas known for its anti-government leanings and several well-known brothels, more than 2,500 people showed up, forcing Clinton organizers...
Each year on March 10 and March 11, the researchers download data from students’ profiles from the college network and strip the data of any information that can be used to identify individuals. The researchers do not use information from students who have restricted other students in their own college’s network from accessing their profile...
...faces the added challenge of improving her job prospects while knowing that accepting one of these careers could strip her family of the welfare provisions—foodstamps and childcare vouchers—that she and her daughter depend...