Word: tethered
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...Kilpatrick Can Take Off Tether, Says Judge in One of Mayor's Criminal Trials" is not the sort of headline that swells a city with pride. But it's been that kind of year for Detroit...
...brought a new installment in the soap opera of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who has faced a slate of criminal charges stemming from his affair with a co-worker and attempts to cover it up. In addition to becoming the first big-city mayor ordered to wear an electronic tether, he has been accused of perjury and assaulting a county investigator in the case; he spent a night in jail for violating bail conditions by crossing the river for a conference in Windsor, Ont.; he posted $7,500 in bail for himself; and he has been forced to take a court...
Then there is the Jewish calendar, which determines the placement of Purim. It is "lunisolar," which means that holidays wander with the moon until they reach the end of what might be thought of as a month-long tether, which has the effect of maintaining them in the same season every year...
...Finance Committee Chair of the Undergraduate Council and Crimson editor Alexander N. Li ’08 sympathizes with the plight of the Mock Trial Team, but insists that the UC is at the end of its tether, thus putting Mock Trial outside of the direct criteria for UC grant funding...
...bull is at the end of his tether - literally. Dragging a clutch of noisy young men on the end of a long rope and harried through the streets of Gaucín, the reluctant star of the traditional Andalucian bull-running festival singles out a man in the crowd, lowers his head and charges...