Word: amissions
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...volley of shots. For a while the embassy did not know that something had gone wrong: a garbled message over the car's two-way radio had been falsely interpreted as indicating that Meloy and his companions had reached their destination safely. The first sign that something was amiss came when Driver Moghrabi's wife received a phone call advising her that her husband and two other men had been kidnaped. Several hours later three bodies were found on a huge pile of garbage close to the seashore, where a new American embassy building is under construction...
...fringes of groups of jollier grads at class reunions, their class ties faded, their expressions somber. They have every reason to be solemn for they take upon themselves the responsibility of informing their classmates (with a ponderousness proportionate to the gravity of their message) that something is amiss at the college they all love so well. Though the tune may change, their sad song always conveys the same message: Alma Mater, that grand old dame at whose dugs they were once suckled on the sweet nectar of collegiate knowledge and sociability, is no longer, alas, what she once was. When...
Something is amiss. The Story of Adele H. is a lovely, sometimes almost ravishing reflection on lost lives. Of all François Truffaut's films, it is the most beautiful. In Adele, Truffaut has found a heroine who perfectly embodies and reflects his own intense romanticism. And in the course of her torturous love affair, Truffaut can further chart-as he did in Jules and Jim and The Mississippi Mermaid-the shattering refractions of an obsession. Yet there is something lacking-perspective, for one thing; also, curiously, passion...
...know that there are gray areas in the law relating to intelligence that need clarification. Ex post facto laws are an abomination, and this committee is not a court. Its purpose is to conduct a searching review of what may have gone amiss, with the objective of strengthening the law so that any misdeeds do not occur again...
...Burns himself concedes that there is something amiss in the monetary machinery. He acknowledges that money-supply growth has "fallen short" of even the Central Bank's own goals. In December, for instance, the Federal Reserve set a money-supply growth target of 5% to 7% for the following month; what it actually achieved was a nearly 9% rate of decline...