Word: tenderizers
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...seem to have made little effort to disguise the theft. Clearly then, something must have convinced them to throw ethics to the wind and embezzle the $100,000 or so into their personal bank accounts. No doubt they got off on their glittering social calendars and their circle of tender, affectionate friends but it’s still unconvincing that social status alone made it worth ten long years of uniforms, lock-downs and cement walls...
...fears, however, were overblown. For the most part, Europeans greeted the launch with good humor and even civic-mindedness. The debut of more than 10 billion new bank notes, legal tender from Lisbon to Helsinki and from Dublin to Athens, has given 300 million Europeans their first true experience of union. (Britain, the most significant holdout, is keeping the pound for now.) An Austrian who stood in a long bank queue to get her first walletful of euros could go home and see Spaniards doing the same thing on TV. The much photographed lines outside some banks were strictly voluntary...
...been disdainful of the European Union's ambitious but remote project of political integration. They have scant understanding of the inscrutable institutions of Brussels, which pour forth picayune rules on everything from bird hunting to the curvature of cucumbers. The debut of more than 10 billion new banknotes, legal tender from Helsinki to Palermo, has given 300 million Europeans their first concrete experience of union. An Austrian who stood in a long bank queue to get her first walletfull of euros could go home and see Spaniards doing the same thing on television. European Parliament elections just...
...date, authorities have made 23 arrests in connection to the fires, including a 14- and 15-year-old detained this Friday. Fifteen of the suspects are said to be juveniles, but authorities have said their tender age will earn them no leniency from the law. "Any youngster nabbed lighting a fire will not get off with a warning from a judge," said State Premier Bob Carr...
...leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is Time's 2001 Person of the Year...