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1. A defiant Tom Delay maintains his innocence after a grand jury indicts the Texas congressman and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme .
2. Hundreds of East Texans remain trapped by fallen trees or fuel shortages as federal relief begins to trickle in to the region hit by Hurricane Rita.
3. Dressed as a man, a woman blows herself up in northern Iraq, killing 6 people, in a first known attack by a female suicide bomber in the Iraqi insurgency.
4. Red, yellow and orange are the colors featured on the newly designed $10 bill due out next year in a new effort to stay ahead of tech-savvy counterfeiters .
5. And a team of Japanese scientists becomes the first to photograph a giant squid. The 26-foot long creature was filmed nearly 3,000 feet under the sea.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. grand jury
grand jury grand juries
A grand jury is a jury, usually in the United States, which considers a criminal case in order to decide if someone should be tried in a court of law.
They have already given evidence before a grand jury in Washington.
N-COUNT
2. indict
indict indicts indicting indicted
If someone is indicted for a crime, they are officially charged with it. (mainly AM, LEGAL)
He was later indicted on corruption charges.
She has been indicted for possessing cocaine.
The police said he'd been formally indicted on Saturday.
Attorneys for the indicted officers tried to delay the trial.
VB: usu passive
= charge
3. scheme
2 scheme schemes
A scheme is someone's plan for achieving something.
...a quick money-making scheme to get us through the summer...
They would first have to work out some scheme for getting the treasure out.
Tourists can be vulnerable to scams and con schemes of all kinds.
N-COUNT: oft N to-inf, N for -ing
= plan
4. trickle
2 trickle trickles trickling trickled
When people or things trickle in a particular direction, they move there slowly in small groups or amounts, rather than all together.
Some donations are already trickling in.
VB
+ trickle trickles
Also a noun.
The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.
A trickle of refugees began to flee the country.
N-COUNT: usu sing
5. tech
tech techs
A tech is the same as a technical college. (BRIT, INFORMAL)
N-COUNT: also at N
6. savvy
2 savvy
If you describe someone as savvy, you think that they show a lot of practical knowledge. (INFORMAL)
She was a pretty savvy woman.
ADJ-GRADED
7. counterfeit
2 counterfeit counterfeits counterfeiting counterfeited
If someone counterfeits something, they make a version of it that is not genuine but has been made to look genuine in order to deceive people.
...the coins Davies is alleged to have counterfeited.
VB
counterfeiting
The business of counterfeiting appears to be expanding.
N-UNCOUNT
counterfeiter counterfeiters
...a gang of counterfeiters.
N-COUNT: usu pl
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