Word: arming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solve its long-term funding problem, HIID established a for-profit consulting arm, ILBE. A large portion of ILBE-Consulting's initial funding came from HIID. Additional funding was provided by the World Bank...
...only inappropriate but also comically misguided about who will be making whom miserable in the Hong Kong of the future. Bunt's mother wants to sell--Hung's offer will bring them roughly [pounds]1 million, or $1.6 million--and when her son objects to Hung's strong-arm negotiations, she says, "Oh, pack it in! I could do business with that...
...photo is at once sad and gruesome, but Janet Ramirez treasures it. Dressed in a white hospital gown, an IV hooked up to her arm, the mother clasps her newborn baby, Maria Guadalupe. Only if you look closely can you see that the baby's face is a death mask; a white cap discreetly covers the gaping hole in the back of her skull...
...that closely resembled professional wrestling. The b-ball brawlers were an unlikely duo: the Knicks' Bible-toting Charlie Ward and the Heat's P.J. Brown, winner of the league's citizenship award. Near the end of the game, Ward backed into Brown, almost upending him. Brown then hooked an arm around Ward's waist, flipped him as if he were a cheerleader and threw him to the floor. Knicks Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, Larry Johnson and John Starks left their bench, a lesser N.B.A. no-no. The N.B.A. gave a record five Knicks a one-game suspension. Miami's Brown...
...soon approached by a Mr. Hung, quite evidently from the mainland, who says he wants to buy the Imperial Stitching building. Bunt?s mother wants to sell -- Hung?s offer will bring them roughly ?1 million, or $1.6 million -- and when her son objects to Hung?s strong-arm negotiations, she says, ?Oh, pack it in! I could do business with that man.? This paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher?s comment after meeting Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much tips Theroux?s hand in ?Kowloon Tong.? He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards...