Word: blanch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mechanics of Hanoi's urban renewal would make any big-city mayor blanch. Renovating even a modest old building can require relocating as many as a dozen families into alternate housing, as American officials discovered when they tried to reclaim the former U.S. consulate, which they plan to take back this month. Nghien hopes Hanoi's new foreign friends will put up the $2 billion it will take to rebuild the city's ancient infrastructure. ``We are not going to be another Bangkok,'' he vows. It is going to be a long, hard fight, but that is something Hanoians...
That faith is an exotic mixture of innovative Americana and unconventional Christianity. Indeed, while Mormon teachers speak increasingly of "Mormon Christianity," most Christians would blanch at the actual theology. Mormon history states that Joseph Smith founded the church in Fayette, New York, in 1830 after being directed by the angel Moroni to unearth a set of inscribed golden plates. These provided him with revelations that ancient Hebrews migrated to North America around 600 B.C. Later Jesus Christ, after his ministry in the Middle East, came to preach to these lost tribes of Israel in America. The tribes eventually split into...
...Blanch speaks deceptively in only the first few minutes of the film; for after Stanley's confrontation of why she has arrived on his and Stella's doorstep, Blanche begins to lose the facade of reality she carried as the last reminder of her former life, She has lost the family's country plantation, Belle Reve (translated as "beautiful dream"). And Blanche, confronted by Stanley Kowalski's brash manner and disrespect, loses the last hold on her own "beautiful dream" of maintaining her life as a lady...
...state companies. His trophies are impressive. As president of Jobs Plus, a nonprofit economic-development firm in Coeur d'Alene, he has single-handedly lured 35 companies to the lake area since 1987 -- 30 of them from Southern California. His technique is so simple it would make an M.B.A. blanch. Potter flips through the Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide, finds small-to-medium-size firms that seem to fit, and calls them up cold to ask whether they would let him prepare a state-vs.- state comparison for them -- at no cost. Most agree. "And when...
...after 1995; excluding support personnel, that number will really amount to only 75,000 combat troops. "If he goes below 75,000," Dewar says, "it will be dangerously low." Even the French, who have been trying to ease America gently out of its commanding role, would blanch at the idea of insufficient U.S. force levels in Europe. As a senior French diplomat acknowledges, "We don't want America to dominate Europe. But we want it to be a main partner in European security, which includes Germany's stability, and its closest possible role in the alliance...