User:Visviva/Time/2008

Based on a wide-ranging scattershot download, due to problems getting wget to fetch the current issue only.


 * 1) antiabduction
 * Ironically, he was nabbed in the industrial city of Saltillo after giving antiabduction seminars to businessmen last week  classes that few others but local cops knew about
 * 1) anticorruption
 * He is the highest-ranking government official to be nabbed in this year's anticorruption sweep
 * 1) antidrug
 * Over the summer, President Felipe Calderón's antidrug czar, Noe Ramirez, resigned abruptly
 * 1) antikidnapping
 * As a result, two directors of the state's recently created antikidnapping unit have been abducted and are still missing
 * 1) farfetchedly
 * He also connects the dots between the Bushes and Watergate, which he farfetchedly describes not as a ham-handed act of political espionage but as a carefully orchestrated farce designed to take down President Richard Nixon
 * 1) fingerbling
 * In this environment, the girlfriends of gangsters have become a named subculture  buchonas   identified by diamond-studded fingerbling, fake breasts and expensive dresses by foreign designers
 * 1) godcousins
 *  And they can be shared, transferred, translated; we borrowed a tradition from our godcousins (is that what families become if another couple are godparents to our kids and we to theirs
 * 1) gombeys
 * The Bahamas celebrate Boxing Day with a street parade and festival called Junkanoo, in which traditional rhythmic dancers called gombeys fill the streets with their elaborate costumes and headdresses
 * 1) hamlike
 * It was pleasantly hamlike and not as salty as he had expected
 * 1) lanai
 *  There are three homes in the compound where Obama is staying; the future first family is occupying an $11 million property featuring 5,000 square feet of interior living space and a 1,900 square foot lanai.
 * 1) maneuverings
 * The last quarter of 2007 was filled with political maneuverings between herself, Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif, who had also returned from exile
 * 1) narcotraffickers
 * ) As narcotraffickers battle over turf and trade, the unpaid Red Cross volunteers who come to the aid of the wounded are under increasing pressure
 * 1) newsmagazine
 * According to Reporte Indigo,  a prominent Mexican online newsmagazine, government memos show that federal authorities had known about La Banda's kidnapping activities as early as five years ago but did nothing to stop them
 * 1) noncollegial
 * The House Energy and Commerce Committee report, which GOP members declined to endorse, blasted Martin's "heavy-handed, opaque and noncollegial management style" and accused him of manipulating or withholding from the public data on the cable-TV industry, among other charges
 * 1) nonunionized
 * Borrowing heavily from features of the failed House and Senate plans, the Treasury plan requires that labor costs be on par with those of the nonunionized automakers but gives the companies until the end of 2009
 * 1) obfuscations
 * You would better serve your readers by educating them to these realities rather than indoctrinating them with the obfuscations of self-serving Democratic politicians
 * 1) overshop
 * We won't overshop, but we will shop
 * 1) preinvasion
 * The report, compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, also found that most of the positive work done has simply brought the nation back to preinvasion levels
 * 1) shaka
 * When Obama emerged at about a quarter to 9 a.m., his Chicago White Sox cap backwards, he briefly flashed the "shaka," a Hawaiian gesture that means everything from "hey there,," to "hang loose
 * 1) slopeside
 * If you want accommodations closer to the slopes, the Grand Targhee Resort  (307-353-2300) is offering slopeside rooms as cheap as $89 per person, including lift tickets
 * 1) snowpacked
 * The sheriff's department says roads were snowpacked and icy in the area and that may have contributed to the crash.
 * 1) statelet
 * Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik publicly declared that he doesn't believe the common state has a future, and occasionally hints that his Serb-dominated statelet may secede from Bosnia
 * 1) suntanners
 *  Dubai is reportedly building the world's first refrigerated beach; heat-absorbing pipes running under the sand will keep the surface of the beach from getting too hot, and giant wind-blowers will cool suntanners
 * 1) trekkers
 * Close your eyes, lean back and sleep tight, at Mimolette, the scions of Singapore, three locals tell you how to spend a night down under and trekkers looking for alternatives to Tibet and Nepal are finding nirvana in the Indian Himalayas 
 * 1) undertrained
 * Not that Mexico's woefully undertrained and underpaid cops are that hard a mark
 * 1) undesign
 * That latter approach shows up in Muji's "undesign" redesign of chairs and tables by the German brand Thonet
 * 1) wideout
 * The low point: in 2003 Millen used the second overall pick on Michigan State wideout Charles Rogers, who was recently sentenced to nine months of drug counseling following an assault and battery arrest involving his fiancée