Word: graying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decade. "A leader must feel the pain of the country," says Sergei Stepashin, the Prime Minister dismissed in Putin's favor when he looked too soft to satisfy Yeltsin's demands. "Putin knew we had no alternative. Otherwise we'd have lost all authority in the country." Suddenly the gray-suited bureaucrat wore tough-guy garb, displaying the iron hand that Russians craved. When Putin coarsely proclaimed that his army would "wipe the terrorists out wherever we find them, even if they are sitting on the toilet," Russians loved it, and his popularity shot...
...center of this gray-market trade squats Veteran Plumbing and Supplies in Windsor, located near the border crossing over the Detroit River. For 55 years, Veteran's proprietor, Sid Awerbuck, 75, has made a nice living selling faucets, tubs and other washroom fixtures. But in the past two years, as the booming economy has pushed more and more Americans into new homes and onto the balky new low-flow toilets, trafficking in the old high-flush models has added 20% to his bottom line. And here's the best part: most of the outlaw commodes sold in Windsor are made...
...next to her on a gray stoop. "I definitely want to make enough money to secure my future," she says, exhaling smoke from a Marlboro Light. "Rap is just a stepping stone. I want my own label and to watch other talent pay dues and suffer headaches like I used to." She laughs...
...charge: murder and aggravated assault in connection with the shooting of two sheriff's deputies in Atlanta who had tried to arrest Al-Amin for failing to appear in court to face relatively minor charges. It seemed like something the rabble rouser H. Rap Brown would do, not the gray-bearded cleric, now 56, whom I had watched leading his flock in prayer...
...Paul Gray...