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1. The latest aftermath from hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's governor urges people to abandon the flooded city of New Orleans.
2. With oil around $70 a barrel, the US government is tapping its petroleum reserves to help refiners hit hard by the hurricane.
3. In Iraq a bridge stampede near a Shiite shrine in Baghdad kills more than 700 Shiite pilgrims injuring some 400 others.
4. Mothers of children killed in the Beslan school seizure nearly a year ago say Russian authorities haven't learned from the tragedy.
5. And it's that time of year, in a small Spanish town where thousands hurl tomatoes at each other --the Tomatina food fight.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. tap
4 tap taps tapping tapped
If you tap a resource or situation, you make use of it by getting from it something that you need or want.
He owes his election to having tapped deep public disillusion with professional politicians.
The company is tapping shareholders for s15.8 million.
The Campbell Soup Company says it will try to tap into Japan's rice market.
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2. stampede
1 stampede stampedes
If there is a stampede, a group of people or animals run in a wild, uncontrolled way.
There was a stampede for the exit.
N-COUNT: usu sing
3. seizure
2 seizure seizures
If there is a seizure of power or a seizure of an area of land, a group of people suddenly take control of the place, using force.
...the seizure of territory through force.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
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