Suddenly it seemed that all the well-to-do parents in my neighborhood were carting their kids around in this crossover SUV instead of the minivans and large SUVs they had once favored.
In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).
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Even as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was unveiling the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, consumers in New York City were carting old appliances to an electronics recycling drive in Coney Island.
Trucks crawled over the makeshift roads, carting boulders to dump in a nearby valley.
The raid resulted in agents carting off more than a half million dollars of supplies and essentially shutting the company down.
Brough spent the next year carting her designs to 287 stores in Los Angeles, New York and London without making a sale.
Aid workers tell us there have already been several deaths from cholera and diarrhea, and that soon they will be carting off the dead by the hour, unless help arrives in the meantime.
But few people opt for the base engines in big pickups, because they actually need the torque for towing or carting.
In this scenario there is no bankruptcy of the sort that has the sheriff carting off the furniture.
In Gaza, meanwhile, Israeli forces struck at a Palestinian Authority training complex, destroying several buildings and carting off large quantities of weapons and documents.
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