Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Codi also finds herself busier than she expected. She meets Loyd Peregrina, half Pueblo, half Apache, whom she had dated briefly in high school; she never told him of the pregnancy and miscarriage that followed. Now she and Loyd fall into an affair that threatens to turn serious, not to say somber. He drives her about neighboring reservations and takes her to some ancient Pueblo villages. She begins to see a difference between inhabiting the land and trying to conquer it: "To people who think of themselves as God's houseguest, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid...
Still, the huge American troop presence cannot help jolting Saudi composure. Says an intimate of the royal decision makers: "They know you can't get into bed with an elephant without a shock to the system." That is especially so now that the affair is out in the open. In the past the Saudis insisted on an "over the horizon" policy toward the U.S. -- they wanted protection but preferred that it be invisible. Faced with Saddam's legions, Fahd quickly < changed his mind. Even as U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney flew to Riyadh immediately after the invasion of Kuwait...
Even the Republican challenge of Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), which promises to be a high-priced affair, may not be even close...
...over a dollar's worth of fruit. The shopowners obtained a civil court injunction ordering the protesters to remain at least 50 ft. away from the shops' entrances, but Dinkins has not ordered the police to enforce it. Instead, he appointed a commission to review his handling of the affair. Not surprisingly, the report it issued two weeks ago praised the mayor's conduct and lambasted Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes for not vigorously pushing the investigation and prosecution of the Haitian woman's original complaint...
...chance of a match between siblings or half siblings, however, is higher, which accounts for the drama unfolding in the Illinois courts. Four years ago, Tamas Bosze had an affair with a woman named Nancy Curran. She gave birth to % twins, Jean-Pierre's half brother and half sister, who are more likely than anyone else to be compatible donors. Last June, Bosze went to court to force Curran to have their twins' blood tested and, if there is a match, to let doctors "harvest their marrow...