Word: wets
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...opportunity in the jigsaw of James' businesses. Late last year, Packer's people split the family conglomerate into media and gaming divisions, with James more focused on the latter. Just before Christmas, Murdoch approached his mate about doing a deal on the group's media fragment, CMH. Over a wet January weekend, bunkered down in a city office, the pair nutted out their privatization plan, which would raise Packer's stake in CMH from 38% to 50% and give the other half to Murdoch, who would take charge as executive chairman. "I am only interested in running businesses...
...erected by U.S. troops on the west side of Mosul. First, do not urinate in any of the three wooden outhouses built over a ditch in the back. The waste has to be burned since there is no running water, and that is difficult to do when it's wet. Visitors are politely told to direct fluids into a hose leading downhill to a creek. Second, when going to the toilet--or anywhere away from the shelters of the camp's twin tents--always wear a helmet and body armor. Mortars drop from the sky without warning, and enemy snipers...
...Signal Success Your article "Signal Failure," on the theory of Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman that streets are actually safer without road signs, reminded me of an incident that occurred in Auckland one extremely wet weekday in winter [Feb. 25]. At 8 a.m., at the height of the rush hour, there was a major blackout that affected the entire city and lasted about four hours. All traffic lights were out. Police on point duty manned four major intersections in the CBD, and one or two others were manned for brief periods by public-minded citizens who did not mind getting...
...snow blanketed the campus during this season’s latest snowstorm on Friday, global warming was not deemed the culprit of the latest round of wet boots and dangerous slips outside Lamont library, according to one Harvard meteorologist...
Umma Aman said she wanted to die for her God. She was sitting on a pile of sandbags, pressing wet rags to her eyes in an attempt to ease the effects of the clouds of tear gas billowing through her madrasah. Outside, gunfire echoed through the deserted streets of Islamabad as the Pakistani military battled militants holed up in the mosque next door. Aman, just 22, had wanted to fight alongside her brothers, as she called them, in defense of the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa madrasah complex that had been the conservative heartbeat of Pakistan's capital for decades...