Word: bins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change in how politics is pursued. A political candidate, especially on the local level, ordinarily is chosen before any platform is worked out. The platform is an afterthought worked out to appeal to the largest number of voters. After the elections, the platform is immediately relegated to the dust-bin...
While his troops surrounded the plane, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum, 26, Defense Minister of the Emirates, tried to talk the skyjackers into letting the passengers go. He asked them to name a price, but they refused to discuss money. Were they interested in exchanging the passengers for some political prisoner? the Defense Minister asked. "It was strange, very strange," mused Maktum. "All they ever asked for was sandwiches, ice, breakfast, lunch and dinner." Their only explanation: "We are awaiting instructions from our headquarters...
Talks were begun by Emirate Defense Minister Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid, who was allowed on board the plane, but no progress was reported...
...Malays feel about the arrangement? The only one allowed to speak with reporters was Headman Buyah Bin Amin. "Are we treated like slaves? No, of course not," says Buyah. "We are quite happy here, although a few of the younger ones are not satisfied with what they...
...guilty of treating our elderly shamelessly. A young girl reported at a nursing home for work. She asked the nurse at the desk to which ward she was assigned for the day. The nurse pointed to what she called the "vegetable bin...