Word: unravelled
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England's Yorkshire dales have their bleak moods, but they're not nearly as haunted as those that drive the melancholy head of the Eastvale murder squad. In his 15th procedural, Strange Affair, Banks must plumb his own brooding depths to unravel the disappearance of his brother. The crimes in this series can be grisly, but pleasure comes from watching the nuances of Banks' character rise to the surface...
...strength. His sagging approval ratings, the public displeasure at events in Iraq and his inability to win support for his Social Security plan suggest that Bush doesn't have the leverage he once did: he could not afford a nominee so toxic to Democrats that the move would unravel the truce struck by a bipartisan group of 14 Senators and possibly trigger a filibuster...
...cell may be in contact with individuals here in the U.S. We are concerned there may be copycats." Finding them won't be easy. The London bombers were what law-enforcement officials call "cleanskins" - people with little or nothing on their records to raise suspicion. How investigators managed to unravel some of the main elements of the London plot last week is the story of advanced forensics and furious, old-fashioned legwork involving thousands of police, security and intelligence officials. It is from these clues that investigators are racing to assemble a picture of how al-Qaeda may have pulled...
...fried in a pan. Scramble an egg; toss a salad. I think that the industrial food industry, the processed food industry, has spent a lot of money and has been very effective in convincing us that cooking is something difficult, some sort of archaic knowledge that is hard to unravel...
...sessions were supposed to end on Sunday morning, but with the chance of an agreement of historic proportions in sight, the two sides met on into the evening. It was only after sunset that the optimism began to unravel. To the Soviets, every element of the deal, it seemed, hinged on the curtailment of Star Wars. When that proved impossible, there was nothing left to do but offer grim handshakes and go home. The original purpose of the meeting--to set a date for a full-scale summit in the U.S. and work out a frame work for an agreement...