Word: swamp
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...British soldiers’ letters for Atonement were seamlessly contained by the narratives, in Saturday McEwan’s efforts become obtrusive. The medical terms used to describe the operations Perowne performs are obviously necessary to any genuine effort to record what is happening, but often these terms swamp the scenes themselves, smothering the prose with a desperate anxiety for accuracy...
...payers, mainly because of their above-average incomes and state and local tax burdens--two key AMT triggers. "There are some conservatives who look at that with a certain glee," notes Len Burman, a co-director at the Tax Policy Center in Washington. But with the AMT about to swamp the middle class in all states, both sides of the aisle have plenty to lose as taxpayer frustration builds...
...winner." While nearly everyone agrees that some of the business deals of the past were underhanded, undoing them is a tricky task virtually without precedent in Central and Eastern Europe. A full-scale reversal of past privatizations would likely give rise to a host of legal challenges that could swamp the government. Pinchuk has said he plans to defend his businesses, which include a huge Soviet-era pipe plant, four national TV stations, Kryvorizhstal and many others. Reprivatization could potentially scare away foreign investors, too, and, depending on which deals go under the microscope, may even hurt some Yushchenko supporters...
...this point so decomposed that their limbs have a tendency to come off. To the south, in Galle, Z.A.M. Fahim, 45, a restaurant owner, has found 32 bodies before midday. He walks toward what was once a busy junction in the town and claims that the giant swamp that now obscures the ground hides 500 more corpses. To prove his point, he walks over to a marshy landscape of tires, rafters and mud. "There," he says, pointing to yet another body, lying in the open. "We are standing on bodies right...
...born-again wife Gail is left feeling "strangely deflated." With Winton, that's middle age for you. And it's around this subject that his characters circle. Like the narrator of the best story, Aquifer, who drives to the city upon hearing about a body dredged from a swamp he lived near as a child: "My mind was elsewhere, traveling in loops and ellipses away from middle age on the all-night sound of the moving tide...