Word: area
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Nine Shinto priests in white robes waved holy branches Thursday to purify the mausoleum in a hilly wooded area where Hirohito will be buried...
...grew up in the Boston area is now the number-one player for the Harvard men's squash team...
...three pipe bombs and a false passport. A Japanese national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred J. Lechner Jr. said the bombs, packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets, "were intended for flesh and blood, not bricks and mortar...
Explaining the marketing strategy behind new chains, Jay Chiat, San'wiches main backer and the superstar executive of the imagemaking advertising agency Chiat/Day, insists that "it's all a matter of the ADI." That is no palate- tingling condiment, but rather the area of dominant influence, or the geographical area that a TV station predominantly reaches (and thus the potential audience for each commercial). That is why, for example, Marriott since June has opened 14 branches of Allie's in San Diego (where San'wiches is also being tested). Only after such saturation will Chairman J.W. Marriott Jr. convert more...
Whatever happens to tourism, the devastation from the oil spill could be a serious setback to the idea of oil and mineral exploration in Antarctica. Last May, 33 nations drafted an agreement that would eventually open the area to mining and drilling. That treaty, which the U.S. Senate will consider for ratification in the next few months, is vigorously opposed by a broad coalition of environmental groups. Any hopes that the Senate will approve the agreement may have sunk with the Bahia Paraiso...