Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STORY IS however a familiar one. A few years back Soviet authorities were alarmed to find that the Russians caviar trade was about to collapse because the special breed of fish required was slowly doing out. With a casual request to Washington, the U.S.S.R. received free of charge, a generous supply of a nearly identical species of American fish under an earlier research sharing agreement. The consequence was American fish eggs in Russian containers at exorbitant prices...
There was a time when lobbyists were discreet, working their deals behind closed doors. But Robert Keith Gray is a new breed of lobbyist, preferring to enter by the front door and stay in the limelight...
...worry about the great Washington shout-out over how the U.S. should stand tall in the world is that we could soon produce a feckless breed of political leaders who would spend their time debating how best to do nothing...
...rare breed: an urban entrepreneur working in direct competition with the state. With the help of a brother and sister, Bai handles 80 to 100 customers a day in his neat, red-painted studio, which he keeps open until 8 p.m. seven days a week. He works in the darkroom until midnight, processing the negatives and retouching them to eliminate warts, wrinkles and other unflattering features. "I don't rest," Bai says. "Even during festivals, I never close." Bai usually charges less than one yuan (500) for a portrait, undercutting prices at the state-run photographic studio...
...with rotting corpses." Is he afraid of dying? "Of course not," he says. "If I were, I wouldn't be in the army." While most of his comrades carry lucky charms, Mohammed wears only an empty 9-mm shell casing around his neck. He is of a breed of soldier who knows nothing in life except battle, hunger, pain, cold and thirst. He and his friends say they are determined to die in the saddle, "like true Goran...