Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mike Seid's Joe is the classic stereotypical poet: sloppy, wavering, unable to keep a job and inexplicably attractive to women. "On the edges of the world," he proclaims to a love-struck Joan, "the poet stands sentinel." Only his trust fund keeps him afloat as he drifts from job to job and woman to woman...
Havana was a riveting place to start. Castro is struggling to stay afloat without billions of dollars in Soviet subsidies each year, and without renouncing the core of Marxist economics and the state security police force that holds 1,200 to 2,000 political prisoners. Telling our group Mikhail Gorbachev's broad effort to open the Soviet Union "destroyed the socialist camp," Castro indicated that he prefers to liberalize the economy while suppressing political reform. "What we need in our country," he said, "is not an exchange of ideas but an exchange of goods, of technologies...
...business career on hold. He is back in jail after violating his parole four months ago by soliciting an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," says People page editor Belinda Luscombe. "No one likes a recidivist. His 'career' has stayed afloat because of his public appearances. But he can't very well wear his snakeskin boots in prison, can he?" Buttafuoco may be out of jail in 67 days -- just in time for Thanksgiving with the family...
...weeks on the mission. However, only about half of those troops -- and some 10,000 of the 25,000 Americans expected to be a part of the plan -- would actually set foot on Bosnian soil. Most of the rest would be logistical units in Croatia and Italy and afloat in the Adriatic. Much of the 22 weeks would be spent marshaling troops in the region until there is sufficient force to move into the Balkans without undue fear of ambush. Amid widespread attacks and sniping, the withdrawal force could be in Bosnia as long as 10 weeks. If there were...
...difficult it has been, in this land of the sentimental and the dramatic, to grapple with the forms of unmerited harm and undeserved pain," West said." If we don't come to terms with the problem of evil, then this precarious and precious experiment with democracy cannot stay afloat...