Word: calling
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...bloody form of bargaining, and the perpetrators trumpeted their responsibility; the message got across only if it was signed. But more recent practitioners, like the men who leveled an American military barracks in Saudi Arabia two years ago or set off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympic Games, rarely call in with their names or seek a discernible result. Theirs may be acts of recruitment to win adherents to some fanatic's cause, or of a secret vengeance. Above all, the anonymous blasts from the blue are terror for terror's sake, intended to sow fear and make Americans tremble...
Last week's turmoil on Wall Street was the latest in a summer-long slide that has knocked almost 740 points, or nearly 8%, off the Dow index since July 17, a decline that economists call a correction. (A 20% drop signals a "bear market.") But a deeper and quieter sort of stock decline has been under way much longer, particularly among smaller companies. For example, the Russell 2000 Index of small-capitalization stocks has fallen nearly 5% since January. Investors have been seeing these declines for some months in their brokerage statements. So as they survey the carnage...
...commander, to Steve Lindsey, the pilot, through three mission specialists and two payload specialists. Glenn's is the last name on the list. No sooner did the crew first meet last January than Glenn made it clear that the chain of command was fine with him. "They wanted to call me Senator, and I said no," he says. "I'm coming down here as John. I'm a payload specialist, and Curt's the flight commander--and whenever they forget that, I correct them...
...know it is about romance and adventure and danger and the beauty of a person on a quest. The story-hungry mind is ageless too. And here is the old/new story of courage in a distant place, of daring and going. Never mind that the carpers call this mission useless. The public does not require a usefulness beyond its own admiring pleasure. As for the practicalities of the space program, it was never so useful as when it reminded the country of heroic capabilities...
...people call it the last frontier," says Woody, 55, a retired truck driver, after a cooldown in his outdoor bathtub. While Woody dunked his derriere, fellow resident Linda Barnett, under a military camouflage net, delivered the nightly CB broadcast of camp doings and items for sale or barter...