Word: winded
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...rose from the ashes of the defunct Students for a Democratic Society in 1969, taking their name from Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” lyric, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”—carried out a casualty-free campaign of pre-announced bombings of dozens of public buildings; the U.S. Capitol truly was among them. And I had no idea...
...serving as an airfield and housing planes, blimps and soldiers alike. Since then, however, it has turned into a mixture of abandoned asbestos-filled buildings, cracked tennis courts, and an abandoned bowling alley juxtaposed against beautiful homes available for rent to military families, the world’s largest wind tunnel, and, of course, a McDonalds...
Cresting the hill on Avenida dos Bandeirantes that leads to São Paulo’s Congonhas Airport, I saw the dense black smoke, blown sideways by the wind. When I ascended the driveway, I was confused. At that moment, the burning warehouse of Transportes Aéreos Marília (TAM), Brazil’s largest airline, looked like any of a dozen building fires I had seen on the evening news. But the severed tail of a TAM Airbus 320 protruded from the warehouse, signaling that the 176 people on board were surely dead...
...from rich countries and poor countries alike worse off in the long run. Not only does protectionism tend to backfire-to eventually cost jobs rather than to save them-but the global economy has already grown so interconnected that bashing China and making a scapegoat out of India could wind up hurting the developed economies. Economists calculate that international trade adds about $1 trillion a year in benefits to the U.S. economy. Even the offshoring of white-collar jobs, despite the hardship it brings for laid-off workers, is a net gain for developed nations like the U.S. and Japan...
...says, need autonomy to build their own curriculum and compete for students. "These kids who do make the cut and go to school are very smart," Vallely says. "They're just not getting much of an education when they get there." If that doesn't change, Vietnam may wind up cheating itself...