Word: tankerous
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...from students wanting to pass exams; some cops earn extra money by selling their bullets; and gangs, operating under the auspices of crooked bureaucrats, police and army-ranger elements, siphon off water before it reaches the taps of most Karachi apartment buildings and sell it in the city from tanker trucks, according to municipal workers. An industrialist who says he refused to bribe health inspectors saw his tiremaking plant shut down when they invoked a little-observed 19th century British law requiring factory walls to be whitewashed. On the Karachi Stock Exchange, insider trading is commonplace and conflict of interest...
Baghdad nights are full of menace. The smoke of looted, burning buildings turns the sunset blood orange. Once darkness falls, tracer fire arcs across the sky like red fireworks. It's dazzling but dangerous. One recent salvo came down on a gasoline tanker, setting off an explosion that killed a man and injured several others...
...King did not appear to appreciate the news fully at first. It was an entire year after the discovery when he and his retinue arrived in a caravan of 400 automobiles at the pumping station of Ras Tanura to witness the first tanker hauling away its cargo of Saudi crude. Henceforth the King would no longer rely for income on the pilgrims arriving in Mecca, Islam's holiest city. And his kingdom's petroleum wealth would emerge as a crucial factor in Middle East politics and the bargaining over global energy supplies. --By Adam Zagorin
...clearly holds power" but no accountability, says analyst Ismet Berkan in Istanbul. "It will be a huge step to normalizing the political setup." - By Andrew Purvis THE CHANNEL Shipwreck Ahoy! Landlubbers and sea dogs alike could only shake their heads at the New Year's Day news that the tanker Vicky had collided with the submerged wreck of the car transporter Tricolor in the English Channel. A spokesman for the British maritime union NUMAST said the accident "beggared belief." How could the tanker have failed to register the five luminous buoys - one equipped with a radar beacon - surrounding the wreck...
...away all those confusing new companies I never bothered to understand in the first place, with their energy trading and e-tailing and telling people they've got mail. None of the news seemed at all appropriate to this year: Attacking Iraq? Jimmy Carter getting a peace prize? Oil tanker spills? Axis of evil? Airline bankruptcies? Ozzy Osbourne? It's as if CNN was replaced by CNNClassic. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're rerunning old infrared shots of Baghdad. The terrorists that struck the U.S. in 2002 weren't recruits from international sleeper cells but the regular crazy...