Word: brings
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...have to stop there every day, even in snow, just to be sure that she's not lacking for anything." Her mother Julia came two or three times a week. "There's a radio in her room that is always on," she said, "and once in a while we bring down a tape and play some songs for her. I just couldn't imagine anyone lying in bed for ten years and not being talked to or held or touched...
...that logic, Papandreou should make no potentially disruptive external moves. The U.S.-base leases, for example, help to bring Greece $500 million a year in U.S. military aid. The facilities also provide work for about 1,650 Greeks. To be on the safe side, however, the U.S. Defense Department has made contingency plans to relocate the bases if necessary...
...forced disengagement from all American economic involvement, on the theory that this would put pressure on Pretoria to reconsider its racial policies. South Africa is so dependent on U.S. investments (now at about $15 billion), the argument goes, that the threat of losing them would be enough to bring about some internal changes. In addition, divestment advocates say that sanctions by the U.S., once South Africa's largest trading partner, send a clear statement to the global community condemning Pretoria's apartheid policies. "It is time for us as a nation to put our beliefs into action," said Democrat William...
Women's rights triumphed when three immigrants won a sex-discrimination case last week against the British government. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a five-year-old immigration law is discriminatory in that it permits men who are legal residents, but not citizens, to bring their wives into the country, while denying the same privilege to women residents whose husbands are still overseas...
...Chilean government is expected to approve NASA's proposal, despite opposition from a number of Chileans. In a letter to a Santiago newspaper, members of an environmental group, the League for Nature and Peace, warned against "the great ecological damage that such a venture will bring to Easter Island." But David Garrett, NASA spokesman for Space Flight, insists that if the project is approved, NASA will "abide by all Chilean environmental- protection requirements...