Word: loaded
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Amid the hot economy of recent years, a larger group of men - especially those from lower-income families - might be heading straight from high school into fields like aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that pay an average of $850 a week rather than taking on a load of college debt. Some social critics blame a dearth of male role models among schoolteachers, and a culture that promotes anti-intellectualism among boys. And, especially in inner cities, crime and gangs entice more boys than girls away from learning...
...Hawks, sophomore guard Matt Logie carried the bulk of the scoring load. The Mercer Island, Wash. native, who played with Prasse-Freeman in high school, netted 15 points but only accounted for one assist Saturday...
...spin-offs soar. Look out for junky companies created to separate legal liability or off-load debt from the parent. And some carve-outs simply don't make good stand-alone companies, like Barnesandnoble.com and other dotcoms that are really just brand extensions designed to cash in on the Internet bubble. Such IPOs may get a lot of attention, but that's not where you find the big money...
...Senate remains overwhelmingly skeptical of a treaty that would inevitably prove costly to the nation of whom it requires the greatest cuts, and against that background U.S. negotiators are trying to find ways of easing the load required by the treaty. Although it has been agreed that countries such as the U.S. will be able to buy polluting "rights" from countries that produce less than their limit of carbon gases to cover inevitable shortfalls in achieving U.S. targets - in other words, pay other countries to increase their own cuts - that could still prove to be a costly solution...
...curtain of dangling burlap strips, it looks like Bob Marley has joined a militia. My doe's head may be spinning around like something out of The Exorcist for all I know. I can't see through the dreadlocks. The driver may not know whether to lock and load or call a priest. But he's still watching. Go ahead, tough guy. Show some courage...