Word: cannot
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...Today, most consumers cannot go a single day without being bombarded, if not pummeled, by a plethora of credit card applications wherever they turn. Whether it is Visa, Mastercard, American Express or their pygmy cousin Discover, the opportunity for appropriation of unneeded material items is forever available to the American public. Unfortunately, in addition to snazzy new possessions, this "shop 'till you drop" mentality also brings with it the acquisition of unwanted and often irreversible debt...
...road: to get to the other casino. Trying not to tempt the road rage of the either drunk or disgruntled drivers behind me on the two-lane road, I keep the speedo pegged on 70, despite the fact that I've never driven the road and cannot see 30 yards beyond my face. On more than one occasion, it seems this mild adventure will end in notice of my death, not my published account of 15 hours wasted on Connecticut casinos...
...many feel that even if the jurors cannot be held accountable, the New York Police Department (NYPD) should be. The NYPD, with its "stop and frisk" tactics, is infamous for its abuses against minorities, the most famous being the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized with a toilet plunger while being "interrogated" by the police...
...death speaks that there is hope for the future. The problem of police brutality and the larger question of race relations within the U.S. are far from solved. But the intelligent response of the black community and the general recognition that police brutality is a problem that cannot be explained away with instructional videotapes shows that we have come a long way since the Rodney King trial...
Opponents of the FLA also criticize the organization's monitoring methods. They charge that the organization does not monitor enough factories and cannot be impartial. "Companies decide who monitors and which factories get monitored, the FLA notifies factories ahead of time, they have to [inspect] as little as five percent, and then [the FLA] labels all products of a company as 'sweat-free,'" Roeper says...