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BELABOR
- To attack verbally; to beat soundly; to explain or insist on excessively.
- Usage: Coverage of White House press conference with White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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DOSSIER
- A file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject.
- Usage: Coverage of Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair's speech to the British Parliament on evidence collected over the past 10 years and presented to justify using force to disarm Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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FUJIWHARA EFFECT
- A binary interaction where tropical cyclones within a certain distance (300-750 nautical miles, depending on the sizes of the cyclones) of each other begin to rotate about a common midpoint; the effect is named after Dr. Sakuhei Fujiwhara who was the Chief of the Central Meteorological Bureau in Tokyo, Japan, shortly after the First World War.
- Usage: Report on series of tropical storms in Atlantic Ocean.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office Glossary; The Weather Channel.
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HODGEPODGE
- A heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
- Usage: Coverage of official Iraqi response, delivered in Iraq by General Amir Hamud Sadi, to Tony Blair's speech to the British Parliament.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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PHILODENDRON
- Any of various aroid plants that are cultivated for their showy foliage.
- Usage: Report on auction being held by bankrupt energy-trading company Enron to raise funds in order to pay off creditors.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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SINUIJU
- City in northwestern North Korea, located on Korea Bay at the mouth of the Yalu Jiang River and connected by bridge to Dandong, China, where a "special administrative region" will be created by North Korean President Kim Jong Il as a test case to allow unfettered capitalism into the isolated communist state with the intention of luring international investors.
- Usage: Report on possible move by North Korea to abandon 50 years of socialist dogma and open its society to free-market trade and democratization.
Source: CNN.COM; The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
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