Word: apartness
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...hoped by this month to have convened a regional conference to promote a new peace. But that plan has been shelved - there is simply insufficient common ground between the Sharon government and all of the Arab moderates on the fundamentals of a two-state peace plan. They remain poles apart on the issues of the 1967 borders, the settlements, the refugees and the fate of Jerusalem...
...corporate America falling apart? Each day brings sordid details of dirty dealings at the highest levels of what were once our most respected companies. The sleaze at Enron and Arthur Andersen shocked us. Now it's Tyco's turn, and it won't be the last...
...When the Pope was shot in 1981, it was Dziwisz who caught the fallen Pontiff in his arms--and he has been by the Pope's side ever since. Dziwisz sleeps next door to the Pope's bedroom, stands just over the Pope's shoulder during Mass and, apart from certain one-on-one meetings, is with the Pope virtually every waking moment...
...this," he says eagerly, pointing out that 9 of every 10 seats on the new 767 are on an aisle or a window. "We found out customers would rather have an empty center seat" than have more leg room, he says, "so our seats are not as far apart" as those of some competitors...
...jeans and retro shirts, he stood in the main entranceway trying to hawk his damaged instrument. Politely ignored at first, he finally hooked a young woman and carefully played a tune that somehow avoided the twisted stops and smashed keys. She was impressed. What she didn't realize - apart from the dubious quality of the merchandise - was that the peddler was in fact Viorel, the bass player of Taraf de Haïdouks, the gypsy band she had paid good money to see, and that his ditty was in effect the first tune of the evening's performance. Downstairs other...