Word: bents
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Richard Nixon probably understood the nature of communism best, perhaps because of his conspiratorial bent and his take-no-prisoners approach to U.S. politics. Ronald Reagan was the most candid when he branded the system "the evil empire...
Last Tuesday hard-line fundamentalists apparently bent on sabotaging Rafsanjani's rapprochement with the West stabbed to death Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Shah's last Prime Minister, inside his home in a Paris suburb. This was the second attempt on Bakhtiar's life, and its success embarrassed the French government. The four-member police detail that watches Bakhtiar's house round the clock did not even notice that anything was amiss until 36 hours after the slaying...
...Bent Skovmand is not exactly a household name, but he has more to do with the welfare of the earth's 5 billion people than many heads of state. As a plant breeder at CIMMYT, the internationally funded agricultural research station in El Batan, Mexico, he spends his days in silent battle with threats to the world's wheat crop. Recently Skovmand discovered a rare strain of wheat from eastern Turkey that is resistant to the Russian aphid, an invader that has so far cost American farmers $300 million. By using the Turkish strain to develop hearty new hybrid wheats...
Most ethnic Serbs, who number 600,000 among Croatia's 4.6 million residents, are so integrated into the republic that they voted in favor of secession in the May 19 referendum. But a core of radicals, bent on preserving ties with Serbia, are waging a guerrilla war in Croatia's northeastern region of Slavonia and the southern pocket of Krajina, where the patchwork dispersal of both groups makes a peaceful solution difficult. The goal of the radicals is a Greater Serbia that would absorb Serbian enclaves; arrayed against them is Croatia's ambition to form a separate nation...
...Lisa, who had sued for divorce in 1986, was owed one-third of Gastineau's forfeited salary -- more than $100,000 -- because the footballer had "wasted" a marital asset. Nielsen, the mother of Gastineau's 19-month-old son, has left him to pursue her film career. Gastineau, once bent on being a professional boxer, is reportedly seeking work as a sportscaster...