The Little Christmas Tree is a big-hearted story that sweeps itself off its own feet.
A 57-15 roft of South Africa in Durban last Saturday wrapped up the Rugby Championship for New Zealand with a six-match clean sweep, success enough in itself but it also placed the All Blacks within striking range of breaking the record for consecutive Test victories.
Although the purge likely did only impact these larger user accounts to this extent, it's a notable sweep, as the website itself only has around 40 million users globally, according to November numbers from comScore.
The resulting trajectory of humanity's nascent ascent appears to be positioning itself to sweep us into progressive new times, especially where our food choices are concerned, as nearly 7 billion people are now standing on the little scraps of land that we share with some 55 billion rather large animals raised for food each year.
To prevent itself from being swept away, it attaches itself with byssal threads to the host's throat.
As the 90's closed, Kia found itself swept up in Korea's economic crisis, eventually becoming part of the large Hyundai Automotive Group through a stock acquisition.
Tyco International, which recently found itself swept up in post-Enron accounting concerns, fell $1.30, to $30.50, and was among the New York Stock Exchange's most-active stocks.
Just as Cambodia is emerging from three decades of war and mass killings, it finds itself swept by the beginnings of a new scourge: AIDS.
In early 1979, as he was finishing college, the Islamic revolution in Iran overthrew the Shah; the following November, the radical movement swept into Saudi Arabia itself, with the takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by armed Islamic extremists.
If Europe cannot get its act together, BAE could eventually find itself swept into the arms of a large U.S. group, and governments could ultimately be forced to buy American.
