Word: bends
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...Ambassador Barbara Bodine opposed the FBI's decision to pull out last June, arguing that embassy security measures were sufficient to protect the agents. Bureau officials refused to bend, insisting the ambassador only wanted the agents in country to preserve the fiction that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was backing the investigation. In fact, Bodine and FBI on-the-ground supervisor John O'Neill clashed so heatedly whenever O'Neill wanted Bodine to press Saleh for help that Bodine refused to allow O'Neill to return to Yemen after he left the country around December 2000. O'Neill retired from...
...other side, steel users groups are lobbying hard and have placed ads in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other publications, urging Bush not to "bend to Big Steel." Says General Motors CEO Richard Wagoner: "We're not going to say, 'Sorry, everybody. You have to pay more for your car because the price of steel went...
...boxing rings. Mann, a famous perfectionist, has meticulously restaged the actual fights, and Smith goes toe to toe with real fighters. Smith says the knockdown of Foreman (boxer Charles Shufford) was the most "grueling" sequence: "We did it over five days. Michael wanted everything, the angle of the bend in my wrist and the angle of my ankle and toe, to be perfect...
Rolling plains and snow-capped peaks greet you as the Charles River dips into a bend that is Harvard Square, the crown jewel of extreme southern Vermont. Home to elite Lesley College (founded in 1492 by William “John” Harvard), Harvard Square boasts staggering diversity: men and women, students and non-students, domesticated animals and wild, feral dogs. Savvy travelers will walk back and forth, to and fro and from left to right as they savvily unearth the hidden secrets of Harvard Square’s historical history. Like every city, town and municipality we have...
Congressional investigators are out one potential star witness in the Enron scandal. Former Enron vice-chairman Cliff Baxter was found dead in his car early Friday morning in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land, with a Fort Bend County justice of the peace ruling Mr. Baxter's death a suicide by midday. (There was apparently a note, whose contents have not been disclosed...