Word: beare
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...blockade. According to one White House official, the decision had been made that "it was time to turn up the heat and display some power." At an afternoon meeting between Reagan and his advisers, Secretary of State George Shultz pleaded for more time to give diplomacy a chance "to bear fruit." Speakes then implied a deadline. The President, he told the press, would apply pressure if diplomacy failed to produce results...
...abounded, investigators from India, the U.S., Canada and Ireland had nothing conclusive to report by week's end about the third-worst airline disaster in history.* Bits and pieces of the wreckage plucked from the sea were sometimes heartbreaking: a red slipper, a limp rag doll, a waterlogged Teddy bear. Irish and British naval vessels and helicopters fanned out over a 5-sq.-mi. area. They retrieved 131 bodies, and by week's end the bulk of the wreckage had been located...
...California, natives of the Indian state of Gujarat, where millions of people bear the family name Patel, operate inexpensive motels from San Diego to the Oregon border. The first Patel was Nanlal, who with a partner bought the old Ford Hotel in Sacramento during World War II. Scores of Patels followed. Naranji Patel, 45, owner of the Sands and Park View lodgings in San Jose, estimates that up to 80% of the state's 1,500 independently run motels with fewer than 25 rooms are in Indian hands. Most lodgings were purchased from small operators who wanted to quit...
...exchange she got New York City's mean streets ("a terrible sight, all that garbage"), its Augean subway ("so loud and dirty"). Davidovich quickly fled to the apartment in Kew Gardens ("quiet, with trees and a fresh smell"). Perhaps the hardest thing to bear was her professional anonymity, the necessity of starting a career over again. "It was very difficult," remembers Davidovich, whose still limited command of English requires her to use an interpreter. "I was very famous in the Soviet Union. I had my public. I did not know if it would be good for me in the United...
Peabody officials said this week that they have informally begun talks with Perot's associates about constructing a Texas extension to the Peabody and renting it some artifacts on a rotating basis. The extension would be built by, and would bear the name of the Dallas computer magnate...