Word: almost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mahathir's ugly words may actually have done the refugees a service, since the threat shocked the Western world into belated recognition of a human tragedy that is almost beyond solution. One Italian newspaper called the situation a "liquid Auschwitz," meaning that in its size and horror the plight of the Southeast Asian refugees is taking on some of the aspects of Hitler's "final solution...
...summation to the jury of "the rather bizarre and surprising case," the presiding judge described the evidence against Thorpe as "almost entirely circumstantial." He made the point that the prosecution's case relied on the testimony of witnesses whose characters were less than trustworthy. Scott, who now trains horses in Devon, gave a highly emotional performance...
...together for photographers. The birds were peregrine falcons, and the news was that the Interior Department is going to shelter four of them at its Washington headquarters as a start toward bringing falcons back to the U.S. East Coast, where they were once numerous. That was heartening news for almost everyone except the capital's pigeons. When peregrines are not digging claws into Interior Secretaries, pigeons are what they love...
...They are almost pure (70%) gold, with a few larger objects weighing up to 2 lbs. each. The last grave has been resealed and remains under guard until the team returns in the fall...
...precisely 3:20 p.m. one day last week, a Swissair DC-10 with 125 passengers aboard lifted off from Zurich's Kloten airport for a flight that ended, uneventfully, 4% hours later in Tel Aviv. Almost simultaneously, many more of the U.S.-built, tri-engine wide-bodies were taxiing to runways all over Europe. By week's end 13 European lines, including such prestigious carriers as Lufthansa, SAS, Alitalia and KLM, had put their 58 DC-10s back into the air. Though their decision brought cheers from the plane's beleaguered manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas...