Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years here I have been labeled politely and insultingly as all three. Any ethnicity that does not fall into one of these three fantasmatic categories gets thrown into a grab-bag of "Other" interchangeable and characterless appellations...
Meanwhile Picco embarked on his secret mission. On several occasions he traveled with Syrian secret police to the border with Lebanon, where he was met by intermediaries waiting in a black Mercedes. Then he was driven -- alone, with his head covered by a cloth bag -- into the Bekaa Valley, in the eastern portion of Lebanon. Some of his meetings with Shi'ite operatives were held in the village of Nabisheet, where he may have spoken to some of the hostages. When asked about that possibility, Picco crisply responds, "Next question...
Swiss Bank wasn't alone. Dozens of banks were left holding the bag. Among those with the heaviest exposure: Midland, Lloyds, National Westminister, Barclay's, Sumitomo Trust, Credit Lyonnais, Citicorp and Bankers Trust. While most banks were plain old gullible, some claim that they were duped. "We weren't wearing blinders," explains a banker. "But maybe we should start asking borrowers to take lie-detector tests...
...near despair," he said last week. "I don't think I ever quite gave up." Sutherland, who shared a cell with Anderson through most of his 2,353-day captivity until his release last month, revealed that he had attempted suicide three times. "I tried to pull a plastic bag over my head and suffocate myself," he said on ABC's Nightline. "But I found out on each try that it got very painful...
...Friendly Neighbor" quickly becomes a legend in its own right. Letters arrive by the bag loads. Listeners, piqued with worry over the traumas of Dad and his daughter Janie's lives, send cakes and pies to cheer them up and winter jackets when the weather turns cold...