Word: swathe
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...struggle, in each race, has been to prove liberal stripes while appealing to a broad swath of people. The senate seat for which Galluccio and Barrios vie, along with relative unknown Carlos DeMaria, contains Cambridge’s wealthier neighborhoods as well as several nearby blue-collar towns...
...European Union? On average, 110 people killed, 4,650 injured, every day? Impossible, of course. There would be panic, uproar, governments falling in the face of such unremitting carnage. But the only lie in this horrendous scenario is the word plane. Substitute car, and that is the annual swath in the E.U. - 40,000 people dead, another 1.7 million injured, with a little help from trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and errant pedestrians. Numbers to make a bin Laden blanch...
EUROPE Storms Deal Out Death and Destruction L ethal summer storms lashed a swath of countries from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. The Italian government declared a state of emergency in northern Italy following violent downpours that devastated beaches, farms and vineyards. In the Czech Republic, rivers burst their banks, killing two people and forcing the evacuation of 2,000. Rising waters also isolated several Austrian towns and washed away bridges. In Romania two people drowned in flood waters. But worst hit was Russia, where 18 holidaymakers were found dead on the Black Sea coast after flashfloods destroyed their...
...dismay of the Bush Administration, it's a banner waving over a large swath of South America. Coca eradication is the linchpin of Washington's antidrug strategy. The widening revolt against it is the loudest sign yet of a new resentment toward the U.S. in Latin America, where free-market reforms pushed by Washington have left much of the region's 500 million people poorer. A former parliamentary Deputy from Bolivia's central coca-growing region, Morales in the past was often dismissed as a radical relic in the land where Che Guevara died. But today he's strong enough...
BARNSTABLE, MASS.—Most postcards sent from my hometown feature John F. Kennedy ’40 squinting into the sun, haloed by a swath of sail, or sand dunes tumbling toward the water, girdled by a snow fence or bearded men in sou’westers clutching lobsters that are the over-enthusiastic red of Chinese takeout spareribs. Here on the biceps of Cape Cod, where much of the year-round population of 48,000 devotes itself to fleecing summer visitors, there is money to be made in the picturesque...