Word: wring
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Carson argues that the public sector can wring plenty of cash out of toll roads by essentially behaving like the private sector and charging market rates for usage. The express lanes of State Road 91 in Southern California, for example, carry some of the highest tolls in the nation--at peak hours, nearly a dollar a mile--which may annoy drivers but help pay for the state's transportation needs. The Pennsylvania Turnpike commission has produced a plan to raise turnpike tolls and attach tolls to other roads in the state...
...unlikely ally with security hawks. Aware of the money trail coming from Saudi oil-lined coffers to radical madrassas, no self-respecting patriot can fill up at the gas pump with a clean conscience. More SUVs mean not only more floods and hurricanes, but terrorists as well. Neo-conservatives wring their hands in dismay, as the oil-rich regimes of Sudan and Iran have proved resilient to American pressures. Oh, how much bigger a stick we could wield if only America could rid itself of “dependence on foreign...
...diplomatic fluttering about? What's going on? Part of it is the Bush Administration's desperate desire to wring good news from the mess it has caused in the region. But there is also a new twist on a familiar Middle Eastern dance: the collision between a grand geostrategic scheme and implacable tribal realities. The novelty is that the grand scheme has been proposed by the Saudis, not imposed by outsiders, and it is appealing to the Administration: it holds the prospect of an alliance of moderate Arab states, and Israel, against the growing influence of Iran. "The world...
...it’s shaping up to be an excellent place to unwind after boorish Core lectures, wring one’s hands about the upstarts in the Student Labor Action Movement and share a scandalized chortle over “Sex and the Ivy.” I find its frankness refreshing and I don’t care who knows...
...part of a grand deception, designed to convince him that he was being looked at as a political asset and not as a potential criminal detainee. The idea is that by the time he got to New York, the jig was up, and the feds were just trying to wring every last bit out of him before the arrest...