Word: swapped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there were few objections when the upstart manager, Renzo Rosso, announced he wanted to swap out his group shares to become sole owner of Diesel. A modest farmer's son from outside Padua, Italy, with a textiles-trade-school diploma, Rosso, 50, is not your typical luxury-group CEO. Sure, he flies in private jets and frequents fashion shows, but most of the time he wears jeans or sweats, and his curly hairdo is more Peter Frampton than Bernard Arnault...
...Palestinian and Lebanese militants holding the Israeli soldiers make no secret that they grabbed them to swap for prisoners held in Israeli jails. Now that force has not succeeded, Olmert must play the militants' game and negotiate for their release. It is hardly unprecedented for Israeli prime ministers to do so; even Ariel Sharon, Olmert's hawkish predecessor, presided over an exchange of hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners for the remains of some Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon...
...Hamas, along with other Palestinian militant groups, is thought to have carried out the raid on an Israeli army post near Gaza in which Shalit was captured. The Israelis are also holding thousands of Palestinians for alleged terrorist crimes, and some of these may also be thrown into the swap...
...site for each successful trade. It's easy to post an item: you simply plug in identifying information--the site walks you through that--and the Web elves produce a full listing. The sole limitation--apart from those of your collection--is that you can only swap like items (CDs for CDs, books for books etc.). So choose a screen name, and start swapping...
...ambulances stopped next to each other in the middle of the road, engines running and lights still blazing away. The swap only took two minutes - both Red Cross crews had done this before and the whine of a drone and rumble of passing Israeli jets overhead were further incentives for haste...