Word: tinning
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...area, populated primarily by minority hill tribes, as a safety valve for impoverished and landless lowlanders. Nestled next to the Cambodian border, the remote, rugged hills are Vietnam's version of America's Wild West. Along Highway 14 signs of the frontier are everywhere: clapboard houses hastily built, tin-roofed general stores offering basic goods and people busily clearing land, building and working the fields...
Unless you're outdoors in the midst of a cold snap, chances are you can't see your breath. And no one would ever ask you to drop a quarter in a tin box for the right to free this invisible spirit from your lungs. Yet last November, Murphy Oil Corp., based in El Dorado, Ark., voluntarily shelled out several hundred thousand dollars for the right to cough out carbon dioxide, the same stuff you exhaled three sentences...
Hawaneen arrived at the Herat camp a month ago after selling his plow and even the tin roof off his house to pay for the journey. Now, in the barren, sand-blown camp, Hawaneen crouches against the wind and watches in dumb agony as a Muslim cleric lays the bony, starved corpse of his eight-year-old son on a plastic sheet spread on the ground and washes him for burial...
...DIED. TIN OO, 67, Burmese army chief of staff who was the fourth most powerful member of the country's ruling junta, in a helicopter crash; near Pha-an, southeast Burma. A serving lieutenant general, Tin Oo was second secretary in the State Peace and Development Council, the 21-member group of army officers that took power in Burma in 1988 after crushing a pro-democracy uprising...
...producer to work out of a White House office and then intervene on behalf of friends to win White House air-charter business have done serious damage to his public standing. 'The best politician the Democratic Party has turned up in a long time turns out to have a tin ear,' said a longtime friend. 'He has squandered his moral authority with a lot of this stuff. It leads people to say, "This man isn't really a populist; he is a phony, a fraud." And though this perception is completely wrong in substance, it is enormously damaging...