Word: vacuuming
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...targeting the right people in cracking down on drug dealing: "Street drug markets do not exist in a vacuum. The drama is played out on a very particular kind of stage, and it is the stage manager, not the actors, that must be addressed. The property in these areas is owned by someone, someone whose neglect of their property allows illicit activity to continue. Unlike the street addicts and gang members, this someone has something of value to lose - their property." See a graphic on addiction and the brain...
Seidner, who was the company's second-highest paid official in 2008 with $6.3 million in compensation, was hired in 2006 after an exodus of investment managers left HMC with a substantial vacuum in its bond division. Former bond managers Maurice Samuels and David R. Mittelman, who earned $25.3 million and $25.4 million respectively in 2004, left the company with legendary HMC CEO Jack R. Meyer in 2005 to form a private hedge fund, Convexity Capital Management, after enduring repeated public criticism for what some considered to be exorbitant...
...recent history in Massachusetts makes it clear that covering the uninsured cannot happen in a vacuum. In fact, more people with access to health care will be a burden on the system, including EDs, without other reforms that address problems like not having enough primary-care physicians. Senator Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, which is taking the lead role in writing health-care legislation, recently told the American Academy of Family Physicians that "meaningful, comprehensive reform must increase the value placed on primary care and redefine the role that primary care provides in our health system...
...Meanwhile, the country exists in a violent and anarchic vacuum, a place that has gone 18 years without a government, which is an al-Qaeda sanctuary and destination of choice for hundreds of foreign jihadists, and where millions need food but where 40 aid workers have been killed since the start of 2008. Somali expert Ken Menkhaus, political science professor at Davidson College, calls it the "longest-running instance of complete state collapse in the post-colonial...
...rare instance in which he set off a firecracker in his bedroom by accident when home alone. “It burned through the carpeting,” she remembers. “He told me that it was the lady who cleaned the house and left the vacuum on to cause the wool to evaporate...