He's paid for all his copper and brass up front - only to find that he's left holding a lot more stock than expected.
If strangers' off-key wailings is what you're in the mood for, you can hit up Brass Monkey (3440 Wilshire Blvd.), a more American karaoke dive bar that's good for sloppy fun.
The four states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri make up the brass buckle on that tough but pliable leather belt.
Now Estrada is trying to demilitarize the government, but when he began the clean-up top brass floated the coup rumors and made him seem weak.
In fact, the seminal moment in the book involves (coincidentally enough) another confrontation with McChrystal and the top military brass during the run-up to the president's fateful decision to approve a troop surge in Afghanistan.
Obie glanced up at the dusty brass disk holding a circle of twenty-five-watt bulbs.
Which makes no sense at all as a monkey is, in archaic naval parlance, a brass triangle which iron cannon balls are piled up inside of.
Asked about reports that he set up a meeting between senior military brass and Mitsubishi Group executives at a plush company guesthouse, Akiyama refuses to respond directly.
Their interior design collaboration with India Mahdavi for Paris's Thoumieux hotel and its two restaurants also started with a typeface, which then grew into a motif that showed up in furniture, lighting and brass hardware.
When Mr. Giuliani was a feared and respected federal prosecutor in New York, he used to talk about the brass it had taken for him to grow up on the streets of Brooklyn as a Yankee fan.
The Gangbe Brass Band, from Benin, seemed to sum up everything Womad stands for.
Olya walked up the steps of the church and tested the brass handle.
The Air Force tried to ignore him, but the Marine brass who appreciated his ideas of fast maneuver, showed up for his funeral.
By contrast, the top brass at banks that fared better, such as JPMorgan Chase, encouraged managers to flag up potential problems and eyed highly profitable units suspiciously.
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Almost to a person, the performers who stepped up cited a special love for the city's artistic tradition -- from the Creole brass bands that invented jazz in the city's streets to the colorful Mardi Gras krewes whose elaborate floats and costumes are an emblem of the city's annual pre-Lent bacchanal.
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Mr. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (Trumpet, Hot 8 Brass Band): I'd like to just go back on the history of the music because coming up as a young musician, I didn't know much about the music - the history of the New Orleans' music or just music in general - how the music developed here in America.
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