[00:01]drain

[00:02]The prison work has also been a serious drain on CIA

[00:05]resources. In Thursday's announcement, CIA Director

[00:09]Leon Panetta said that in closing the prisons, the agency

[00:13]would save $4 million per year on contractors.

[00:18]refrain

[00:20]Mr. McCartney, who has long advocated vegetarianism,

[00:24]urged European legislators to support policies like

[00:28]encouraging citizens to refrain from eating meat for one

[00:32]day a week…

[00:34]vain

[00:36]It kept a pregnant Yukos lawyer and the firm's fatally

[00:39]ill manager in prison in a vain effort to make them testify

[00:44]against their old boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is now

[00:48]on trial once more.

[00:51]stain

[00:53]The 409-page Mitchell Report, which was concluded

[00:57]in 2007, named 89 MLB players in all, including Roger

[01:04]Clemens and Barry Bonds, putting a stain on the sport.

[01:10]grin

[01:11]Millions of Latin Americans last week saw the

[01:14]President of the U.S., arms flung wide in greeting, flower

[01:19]petals stuck to his pink and sweating scalp, a delighted

[01:23]grin on his face, as he rode down stately boulevards…

[01:29]grind

[01:31]Working alone or with one or two employees, renting

[01:35]their workshops, little masters mostly specialized in one

[01:40]aspect of their trade - forging, or grinding, or finishing

[01:45]- and often in one type of product: razors, scissors,

[01:49]surgical instruments.

[01:52]groan

[01:53]Meantime with many a snort & groan, millions of U. S.

[01:57]citizens filled out pink slips noting the highlights of their

[02:01]incomes and tax payments, filed them along with their

[02:05]income tax returns.