Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family fee to cover expenses for themselves, their children, and their married children's spouses. If they have youngsters who will participate in the coordinated child-care activites, they shelled out a extra $100. The 25th reunion alumni are housed on campus and are the only ones invited to bring their children with them...
...younger sons, Emad, 23, typifies the pain of the occupation. He has not been given permission to work in the West Bank or to emigrate elsewhere because of the fiery anti-Israeli speeches he delivered at Bethlehem University. Young people are coming to believe that only force can bring a solution. Though Abu Nabil does not believe violence will win back the homeland, he reluctantly agrees that words are not enough. "My generation can fight only with our tongues," he warns. "Theirs will have to fight with guns...
Ness is even more radically redefined. Mamet says he sees him as a lone town tamer of Western legend. De Palma has evoked the name of John Ford to suggest the classic qualities he was aiming for. And Costner has something of the grave beauty Gary Cooper used to bring to these roles...
...North raised the $200,000 from Perot. He then described the plan in a June 7, 1985, memo to McFarlane. The $200,000, he indicated, would only be a kind of down payment; eventually $2 million would be needed from "the donor" to rent a yacht to bring the hostages to Cyprus, to set up a safe house for them on the island and, apparently, to pay additional bribes...
...discourage North; three months later he talked Perot into forking over an additional $100,000. Perot has no idea what happened to it; all he knows is that in mid-1986 North asked for $1 million more, to be handed over to someone who was supposed to bring five hostages to Cyprus by boat. A Perot courier flew to the island, sat around for a week waiting vainly for the hostages to show up, and returned with the cash. Although Perot was out $300,000, he is taking his loss philosophically. Says he: "I would rather try and fail than...