Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fortunes prospered, Asahara seems to have grown more reclusive and obsessed with danger. The religion, nominally Buddhist but really a hodgepodge of ascetic disciplines and New Age occultism, focused on supposed threats from the U.S., which he portrayed as a creature of Freemasons and Jews bent on destroying Japan. The conspiracy's weapons: sex and junk food. The guru's sermons predicted the end of the world sometime between 1997 and 2000, and began citing the specific peril of poison-gas attacks...
...asks Robert Rector, senior policy analyst for welfare issues at the Heritage Foundation. "What does a hot school lunch offer two 16-year-olds in D.C. who are shooting each other in the school halls with semiautomatic weapons? ... Go into any housing project and you don't see kids bent over with rickets. You see strong healthy young men who are a danger to themselves and their community...
...despite its many commonalities with the U.S. -- including its phone system -- does things its own way. ``Are we any different?'' asks David Sutherland, head of computing and communications at Ottawa's Carleton University. ``The answer is typically Canadian: yes and no. Because of our cultural differences, we seem more bent on local activity than on reaching across the country.'' In that spirit, Canadians have more local ``freenet'' connections per capita than their southern cousins -- a total of nine community services that provide free local access to the Internet. Canadians also claim a computer culture that is both more open...
...sidelines are the Americans. According to a White House source, the Clinton Administration doesn't feel the changes in Cuba have been substantial enough to justify a diplomatic rapprochement, while the conservative Republicans now in control of the U.S. Congress--pressured by Miami's community of Cuban Americans--are bent on keeping the door to Cuba firmly closed to U.S. companies. Just last week Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms introduced legislation that would tighten the 33-year-old economic embargo even more. ``Let me be clear,'' said Helms. ``Whether Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical or horizontal position...
...Public Interest Advising] office was incredible and really bent over backwards and did everything possible during the trying time of applying," Dickinson said...