Word: stroke
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...with tax authorities in Dekirukana: Datsuzei (Daring Tax Evasion), a book that began as a magazine cartoon column in which she recounted her real-life adventures. These included testing a homemade radiological monitor at a nuclear power plant and working at a hostess bar, where her job was to stroke the fragile egos of lonely...
...advocate of the state-sponsored dismantling of oil titan Yukos, and a reliable bellwether for the nationalist wing of the Moscow élite, Belkovsky turned on Putin last week. In an interview with TIME, he dismissed the President as "a minor clerk" who ended up running Russia "by a stroke of luck." He claimed that "disappointment and irritation" with Putin are growing in the middle ranks of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB and a crucial Putin power base. And he predicted that opposition will continue to grow - and that it could even drive Putin from...
...speak German and only half have joined a local synagogue. Even the Jewish community complains of being overrun. But the idea of quotas sticks in the craw. Says Charlotte Knobloch, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany: "Despite all the difficulties, it is a stroke of luck that Jews are returning to Germany." Claudia Roth, co-chairwoman of the Greens, takes a harder line. "We are going to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and then we tell the Jews that want to come here...
Francine Grodstein, associate professor in the medical school’s Department of Epidemiology and an author of the study, said that the findings demonstrated the health benefits of consuming alcohol, including decreased risk of stroke...
Like Cusworth, Callahan was seeing his first action in several weeks because of a left thumb injury. He nailed four of his first five attempts from long distance, his stroke seemingly unaffected by the cast on his hand, but went on to make only one of his final five attempts...