Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Marquis contemplates the mysteries of Tepe Zargaran that he will never be able to unravel, a shout rings out from the other side of the excavation site. Ahmad Basir, a grinning 19-year-old, holds aloft a clay urn the length of his forearm. It took Basir several hours of painstaking work with a scalpel to free the artifact from the earth where it had lain. Before the archaeologists came, he explains, looters would simply hack away at a site with axes and shovels until they found statues or gold jewelry. "We didn't care about pots," he says...
...real estate analyst Eric Wong predicts a glut. As a result, revenue per available room - a common measure of hotel performance - is expected to fall in every major market in 2009. "Everybody was trying to grab a slice of the action," says Wong. "Now a lot may start to unravel...
...mapping the human genome. It's not; there are a few basic rules of thumb. Animals are golden on the Net-particularly when acting like humans or falling asleep. And children are Cyberspace superstars no matter what they're doing, though especially so when they're trying to unravel a problem. Thrust an adorable kid into a situation still alien to his child brain, and you can comfortably sit back and watch the hits roll...
...boxes in the Jan. 31 vote. Iraqi security forces in Anbar braced for trouble, at one point imposing a curfew, an increasingly rare move these days. U.S. forces in the province watched the situation warily, wondering whether the relative calm Iraq has known for roughly the last year would unravel in a matter of days or even hours. "The levels of violence can spike out of - almost out of control," said Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the U.S. ground commander in Iraq. "We have to be mindful of that...
...delay may make it more difficult to unravel the case. The police took a week to seize documents from Satyam's auditors, and there are concerns that crucial papers have been destroyed. Two weeks after Raju's confession, the state police arrested his cousin, Gopalakrishna Raju, who heads a sister company, for "concealing and causing disappearance of evidence"- mainly documents related to property acquisitions. Although an independent body under the central Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the Serious Crimes Investigation Office, has been investigating the case, it has a mandate to look mainly at violations of corporate law and not issues...