Word: canadas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rueful joke is told by Yaakov Agmon, the Israeli theatrical director who is in charge of the 40th-anniversary celebrations that will be held all over the country this spring. The joke, based on a pun in Hebrew, suggests that God really meant to give Moses the land of Canada, not Canaan. Moses is asked by God to which country he would like to take the children of Israel. Moses was a stutterer and he wanted to say Canada, but it came out as Ca-ca-ca-na-na-na. So God thought he meant Canaan and sent the children...
...More than 100 soldiers have been prosecuted through the military justice system for refusing service in Iraq, and an unknown number of other soldiers have simply deserted, fleeing to Canada and other places. But Watada is believed to be the only officer to have refused deployment. And he is certainly the only soldier to have gone to his punishment in such a public manner, speaking at anti-war gatherings, enlisting the services of a D.C.-based public relations agency, and speaking to his supporters by video via a web site (thankyoult.org). Watada has not become a grassroots catalyst of antiwar...
...refining company, has remained in El Dorado (pop. 22,000) even though the south Arkansas oil fields were largely pumped dry decades ago; the company's 2006 revenues of $14 billion and after-tax earnings of $600 million derive from its wells in Africa, Asia, the North Sea and Canada, as well as the Gulf of Mexico. That it has prospered as El Dorado struggled spurred Murphy to action, says chairman and CEO Claiborne Deming. "This not a booming metropolis by any stretch," Deming notes, alluding to the toll that lumber imports have taken on the area's timber economy...
...have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told. For me, the role was really about preparing emotionally. I just sunk myself deep into the horrors of war. I walked around thinking about it every day. So many of the soldiers were so young. A lot of them were 15 and 16. After a couple of weeks of focusing on that that, you find...
...CLINTON: I think NAFTA was, in principle, a good idea to try to create a better trading market between Canada and the United States and Mexico. But I think the terms that it contained, and how it was negotiated under the Bush Administration and the failure to have any tough enforcement mechanism, like pollution on our border with Mexico, for example...