The key will be negotiating the dusty line between preparing fully and overplaying.
HULUGHO, Kenya — A thin, dusty line is about the only thing separating Kenya, one of the Western world's closest allies in Africa, from the Shabab, a radical Islamist militia that has taken over much of southern Somalia, beheading detractors, stoning adulterers and threatening to kill any Americans or Europeans who get in their way.
Other workers follow with brooms, sweeping the dusty lines clean.
About 300 Buddha statues, cracked and dusty, lined one wall, and in a room off to the side sat three grand Buddhas and a few dozen photographs of the Dalai Lama.
"As each issue bubbles up, analysts or providers of capital to the firm have to say, 'OK, what other tape bombs are lying in the dusty lines of Citi's balance sheet?'" David Knutson, a credit analyst with Legal and General Investment Management, told Bloomberg.
WHEN a handful of autonomous vehicles rolled over the dusty finish line in Nevada's wasteland in October 2005, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPAA), the research arm of America's armed forces, together with experts from the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, celebrated a technological triumph.
As I washed off the layers of paint from my hands the light again changed — this time to fruit colors of mango, strawberry, peach — and finally settled to a dusty pink line of color just over the deep blue of the sea on the western horizon.
LOS ANGELES — With brown, dusty grass lining the hillside, this scrubby patch of land in the middle of downtown is not that much to look at.
He parked his car outside his family's old house, now a weathered brick meeting hall along a dusty road lined with vegetable and fruit stalls.
Dusty punch lines include the set designer Jo Mielziner (rhymes with "keener") and the operetta composer Rudolf Friml (rhymes with "Gott im Himmel").
ARSAL, Lebanon — Its dusty streets lined with cars bearing Syrian license plates, this Lebanese mountain town has long felt as much Syrian as Lebanese.
