Word: swamped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Last Thursday, I helped drain a swamp that a village community uses for drinking and bathing water. The rainy season will start sometime next month, and so the villagers asked us to help clear out the feet-deep layers of sludge at the bottom in order for clean rainwater to accumulate...
...felt that invoking T. I. A. to cope with the situation—which the project leader did—was entirely reasonable. After all, no one would have had the right to complain that a shiny, yellow Caterpillar bulldozer didn’t pull up to the swamp alongside dump trucks and vacuum-powered electric hoses to get the job done within a few hours...
...particularly charged finding is that in most species besides humans, same-gender pairings rarely lead to lifelong relationships. In other words, when one attractive bonobo male eyes another in a lovely patch of Congo swamp forest, they occasionally kiss and then move on to other oral pleasures, but they don't bother anyone afterward about trying to legalize their right to an open-banana-bar ceremony. In fact, they are likely to move on to girl bonobos: most animals that engage in same-gender sex acts do so only when an opposite-sex partner is unavailable...
...edition of the "Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs" is a swamp of data which is only useful it if it turns out to be correct. There is no evidence that most of the assumptions are accurate any more than there is proof that the new federal budget and its forecast deficits are accurate. The White House recently changed its deficit projection for the next fiscal year by $89 billion. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
After leaving Detroit and coaching the Dream Team to gold in Barcelona, Daly landed in New Jersey to coach the woeful Nets in 1992. He always deserved more credit for his brief stint in the Meadowlands swamp. Daly turned the Nets into legitimate Eastern Conference title contenders until John Starks of the New York Knicks broke the wrist of Nets point guard Kenny Anderson during the 1993 season. Then the team's scoring machine, Croatian shooting guard Drazen Petrovic, died in a car accident that summer. Daly left the Nets in 1994, and coached the Orlando Magic for two seasons...