Search Details

Word: burg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...include several West Bank settlers and some reserve officers in the Israel Defense Forces. The police hope that the arrests may shed some light on earlier attacks on Arabs, including the June 1980 bombings that maimed two West Bank mayors. Of the foiled bus attack, Interior Minister Yosef Burg said, "Thank God, the disaster was prevented. Terror produces more terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Bus Stop | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Ambitious boy kicks burg is a familiar story, and central to the Zuckerman books. The Ghost Hunter (1979) introduced a young Nathan, like Roth a Newark-born writer who was hailed as the most promising voice in American letters. Zuckerman Unbound (1981) found the hero in his 30s, beleaguered by celebrity and controversy. Carnovsky, a Portnoy-like novel, had angered the community and his own family. His father's dying word to his son was "Bastard." Roth's father, a retired insurance executive, is a vigorous supporter of his son's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Labor and environmental leaders rightly reject these alterations. They say that the 400 most hazardous substances form only the tip of a toxic ice burg. They claim the proposed legislation is not unreasonable since employers would only have to supply standard information on hazardous chemicals--information that is already required by the federal government and often provided by chemical companies to firms that use their products. Furthermore, advocates of the more stringent bill argue that the law will not be unduly expensive to regulate since it only mandates enforcement in response to a complaint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meet Your Enemy | 7/8/1983 | See Source »

...Burg, director of public relations at Shippensburg State College, said his college's committee has come up with three options for students who stand to lose course credit because of Crafton's arrest, to crase the course from their records, to maintain their original grades and take a remedial course, or to reenroll in the course free of charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Absent Professor | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

...spirit of the Jewish tradition of 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' " The opposition resolution declared that Greenzweig had been "murdered as the result of a criminal attempt to attack freedom of speech and the foundations of democratic life." After the vote, Interior Minister Burg, whose son had been injured in the grenade attack, said that the Knesset's failure to produce a joint statement was "a discredit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Weathering the Storm | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

Previous | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | Next