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How does one get a brain?" (Laughter) So I racked my brain and I thought, why don't I call the medical examiner who I think has the brain right now?
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is staffed by journalists and citizens where they are crowd-sourcing what dictators and terrorists are doing with public funds around the world, and, in a more dramatic case, we've seen in Mexico, a country that has been racked by 50,000 narcotics-related murders in the past six years.
In fact, it's very likely that this muscular person will end up like this one here, racked with tuberculosis and mercury poisoning in just a few years.
So we'd racked up at this stage about 600,000 dollars worth of debt.
Today we have a crisis because, because of 9/11, we are still looking in the wrong direction, and we know because we see transformational trends on the horizon that are far more important than what we saw on 9/11; far more important than the threat posed by these terrorists; far more important even than the instability that we've got in some areas of the world that are racked by instability today.
When Mansa Musa came to power in 1312, much of Europe was racked by famine and civil wars.
He maxed out 11 credit cards and racked up six figures in personal debt and it still wasn't enough.
In the early days, I was flying back and forth to San Francisco every week for Atlassian, and I racked up a lot of frequent flyer points and got access to the Qantas business lounge.
And it's very difficult to be happy on a planet that's racked with famine and drought.
But we do continue to follow Veronika as she searches the faces of harried recruits and their emotionally racked women, all extras, and each one a gem of riveting Stanislavskian behavior.
I've racked my brain and I cannot come up with one positive comment to make.
His movies are fun, but his personal story is one racked with pain.
Hamstrung by parsimonious budgets, they racked their brains for ways to make their movies look good and pack a wallop.
Despite a slew of good reviews (The French tend to favor a nought to three star system), three maximums, six 'very good', in four weeks in Paris it's only racked up one hundred thousand admissions and last week was down to six thousand in five salles which means that the ruthless French distributors will yank it any minute now.
Racked with guilt Marcos confesses all to his Brother Steve who also says he must tell the police, in no time whatsoever Marcos beats Steve to death with a wrench.
Signs of decline in China’s economy, which has racked up double-digit growth for decades, would affect all of its Taiwan policies.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,000 points twice, wiping out all the gains that the bull market had racked up for the year so far.
Eager to borrow their country to prosperity, they racked up enormous debts while presiding over a dramatic loss of competitiveness and, thus, growth potential.
Racked by sectarian violence and civil war, the country has no functioning government to manage water resources.
Sri Lanka, almost since independence in 1948, has been racked by acrimonious rivalry between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils, who make up 12% of today’s 21.3-million population.
Many bankers instead followed a path similar to Fred Goodwin, the head of Britain’s Royal Bank of Scotland, who racked up £24.1 billion ($34.2 billion) in losses, then resigned with a huge pension.
That’s why Trump racked up large majorities in so many working-class bastions that had previously supported Obama.
Indeed, from coup to dictatorship to war to sanctions, the US has racked up more than 60 continuous years of trying to impose its will on Iran.
Relative affluence and greater personal freedom exist for many, even as other Chinese citizens are racked by the travails of modernization.
The Domestic Threat to US LeadershipCAMBRIDGE – US President Barack Obama has racked up a series of foreign-policy triumphs over the last 12 months.
The country was racked by scandal.
Like a gambler reliant on a loan shark, Cambodia has, in recent years, racked up massive, opaque debts to China, which it cannot repay.
His heart beat, and he racked his brain with surmises.
The light was shining in the window of her aunt, who, Frances easily fancied, was watching the mountain, racked with all the anxiety she might be supposed to feel for her niece.
Racked by insomnia, and unnerved by the visit of Therese, he calculated the disadvantages and the advantages of his becoming an assassin.