Word: agee
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...positive and long-lasting impact on the lives of millions around the world. It represents the aspirations of all peoples to pursue life, liberty and happiness. In the current age of "globalization," it is a forum for increasing the ties among nations. Documents like the Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (which the U.S. has not signed) contain the essence of doctrines which transcend political and national differences...
Those who have seen Mystere or any of the five touring shows Cirque has presented since 1987 will know what to expect from O: the tumblers and trapeze acts, the contortionists and clowns, wrapped in dazzling, almost liturgical theater magic and underscored with seductive New Age melodies. They will know, and then, seeing O, they will be astonished. For Cirque has trumped itself again. Putting on a show in, above and under water has forced director Franco Dragone and the Cirque staff to create an intricate new technology that allows the pool floor not only to rise and descend...
...more for self-indulgence than for selflessness. He amassed a gaudy mix of Bugatti autos, Frank Lloyd Wright drawings and artifacts, and a dream ranch in Ann Arbor where herds of buffalo roamed. Monaghan explained those sprees as compensation for the fact that his mother abandoned him at the age of four to foster homes and an orphanage. As owner of the Detroit Tigers, he liked to swoop down on home games in his helicopter. He once considered building a 35-story slanted tower dubbed--what else?--the Leaning Tower of Pizza...
Murphy's own magazine has published The Parents Answer Book: From Birth Through Age Five (Golden Books). It takes parents from the breast-vs.-bottle-feeding debate to toilet training to sleepovers. The 900-page Parents Answer Book is intended as an encyclopedia of child care, ready to be pulled down from the shelf in a moment of need...
Papa John's record is all the more impressive in view of the sluggish growth of the pizza market, which has reached a mature middle age. (Legend traces the modern mass industry to the appetites of Americans after World War II, when G.I.s who had been stationed in Italy returned with enthusiastic tales of open-faced cheese pies.) While Americans consume pizza at the rate of 350 slices a second, the market for restaurant pizzas has been growing just 2% a year. Yet Papa John's customers keep coming back for more. So far this year, Papa John's sales...