Word: wa
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Along with teammates Apolo Anton Ohno (Seattle, WA), Ron Biondo (Broadview Heights, Ohio), and Rusty Smith (Sunset Beach, Calif.), Weinstein grabbed the 5000-meter relay final in a time of seven minutes 15.885 seconds...
...greasy, rolling “Chicken Dog” called upon jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery’s pioneering style as he conjured segments of thick parallel octaves. These soon gave way to electronic pedal antics from tone bending to evocations of Jimi Hendrix’s wa-wa guitar bending on his legendary “Voodoo Child...
...necessarily mean much. In Japan, it's always better to be asked to serve than to aggressively go after the top job. "Nonaka has what a traditional leader requires," says Shigetada Kishii, a political writer for the Mainichi group of newspapers. "In the Japanese politics of wa (harmony), a leader's role is as a coordinator...
...knows that this isn't an agricultural product," he smiles. "No one knows what methamphetamines look like." After Li's speed is processed it is handed over to local crime gangs, who ship it to Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia or take it overland into Burma to the Wa state, where the drugs are further refined into the tablets that are eventually smuggled into Thailand and sold, via numerous middlemen, to Jacky and her fellow addicts at the Do It Yourself Happy Homes. The pink pills that Jacky smokes are all stamped WY, the symbol of the United Wa State...
...world's largest opium producers, and the source of at least half the heroin sold in the U.S. Soon Lin was opening new heroin-smuggling routes in Southeast Asia to get his product to the U.S. and Australia. The U.S. State Department identified Lin and his Wa allies as key players in the heroin and methamphetamines trade. A single refinery belonging to the Lin syndicate could manufacture anything up to 2,000 tons of pure heroin every year...