Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...
People with something to sell and a little cash for promotion sometimes engage a publicist to put out a flattering word. Such a paper is called a press release. Journalists consider it a breach of legitimacy to publish such a document verbatim; in most cases, the hyperbole would invite derision. A few days ago, however, a press release went around from Alfred A. Knopf, Michael Crichton's publisher, announcing the imminent release of 2 million copies of his new novel, The Lost World, the sequel to his 1990 blockbuster Jurassic Park. The remarkable thing is that...
...from tidal waves occasionally heaved up by the underground nuclear explosions. A second, lower seawall also surrounds the atoll. The single entrance to the lagoon within is only a few yards wider than the beam of a medium-size oceangoing ship. Protest vessels have been aiming at this breach since 1972, and last month the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II, a successor to the Rainbow Warrior blown up by the French at Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985, was rammed by a French warship as it tried to enter the lagoon...
...speak only for myself, although I know that my views are shared by many clinicians and scientists here at Harvard and elsewhere. Readers should also understand that the committee's work, like all internal faculty reviews, was confidential; I will not breach that confidentiality by anything I say here. But important questions have been raised by Mr. Dershowitz's charges and they need to be addressed. My comments address only those issues and will be based on what is already in the public record...
WILLIAM MORRIS & ICM Rival talent agencies hope to fill breach after uber-agent Mike Ovitz defects to Disney...