Word: annexation
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...office wall was a portrait of the French ultranationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen. By the window sat a teddy bear. "I am no fascist," he snarled, bounding from his chair to stand before a large map demarcating the portions of Finland, Poland and Afghanistan that he hopes to annex. "I have not allowed myself to make a single extremist escapade in my life...
...University of Chicago in 1986, and in July, 1987 became Director of the Museum. Peretz observes, "Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned, but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys of the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises...
...Institute at the University of Chicago eight years ago, Professor Stager was made the director of the museum. Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises. In this sense his war against the museum is an easily understood university quarrel. It's what one Harvard wag calls "space imperialism...
Emanuel D. Lane, who voted at the City Hall Annex last year, said he read a notice in his apartment complex that he was to vote at the Miller River Apartments. When he arrived there, he found that he was supposed to go to Roosevelt towers...
Barry, who writes a nationally syndicated column every week, appeared at the first floor of the cooperative's book annex as part of a tour to promote his newest book, Dave Barry Does Japan...