Word: wrecks
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...Hoffmann, who has been studying international relations for more than a half century, the answer is simple: “If one does see a train wreck coming...
From a fire-gutted shell across from a pretty park on the north side of town to a mangy wreck near the airport where a collection of cats and dogs were found chained together in the yard, abandoned residences are putting a blight on all types of neighborhoods. "We get about six to ten calls a day on vacant homes," says police officer John McGill, who stresses that this isn't just a problem in the poorer parts of town...
...disabilities to consider. Indeed, awareness weeks usually have the unfortunate effect of making me worry about all the other things of which I may be unaware. When a cursory search of Facebook revealed over 500 separate awareness events in the coming week alone, I was reduced to a quivering wreck. I had no idea about Canadian Landmines or International Plankton. Ignorance had been bliss. Awareness was torment. I nearly sent Undergraduate Council President Matt L. Sundquist ’09 a detailed letter about my mental state. Until last week, I hadn’t been aware I could...
...well: a stock-market boom turned bust, a real estate boom turned bust, unprecedented levels of consumer debt. The reason they haven't metastasized 1930s-style is that this time around, the Federal Reserve has acted forcefully, whereas in 1930 it was a spectator at the national train wreck...
...peer into the bottom of the American political barrel and the outright perversion of dialogue and the English language. Note that I didn’t stay because I was outraged or secretly thrilled by your audacious accusations and asides; the experience was more like staring at a car wreck. I don’t know, Ms. Coulter, if you thought you had given your audience something to think about, or that your “dirt” on John McCain would lead us to reconsider the upcoming election, but I write to inform you that you failed...