Word: anchors
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RECUPERATING. CHARLIE ROSE, 64, anchor of PBS's highly acclaimed Charlie Rose show; after heart surgery to repair a valve; in Paris. Rose, who had felt short of breath while in Syria to interview President Bashar Assad, hopes to be back on air in several weeks...
...There has never been anything like this in human history," he told the audience of more than a hundred, which included a mix of policy specialists, legal professionals, and academics. He said the international community has lost "its moral anchor" and cited the industrialized world's systemic failure to provide adequate aid to countries where the infected population of dead and dying could reach 100 million before the pandemic...
...pollster, warns candidates tempted to distance themselves that "President Bush drives our image and will do so until we have real national front-runners for the '08 nomination. If he drops, we all drop." Another Republican strategist describes the problem for G.O.P. candidates this way: "Adding weight to the anchor doesn't help them...
...three child prostitutes hiding in the shadows. One by one, she asks them, "Have you seen my daughter?" Finally, a girl admits Junelyn's runaway 12-year-old has been working alongside them as a "dugong" - the local term for a young prostitute - servicing the foreign freighters that anchor off the Solomon Islands capital to collect tuna caught by local fishing boats. On the wharf where the child was last seen, Customs officer Moses Tare says he spotted five young girls on a freighter during his last water patrol but has no authority to remove them. "I rang the police...
...tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. One force is very old - from nickelodeons to silent movies to talkies to cinemascope to cinerama to IMAX. The other venue is the gadgets that sort of anchor us in one place and eat up the hours in our day, that makes us wait...