Word: cave
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...They nod and grunt assent, and he proceeds to talk about the time their shy ancestors hid themselves from the outside world in Liang Bua, a high-ceilinged cavern scooped out of a limestone hill about a kilometer away. Again a chorus of agreement. "Tell how Paju left the cave and married one of the normal humans," calls out a voice from the crowd, "[and] how we came to live here in Rampasasa." Jurubu hesitates. After a pause, he opens his mouth to speak, but his words are drowned out by an impatient babble of voices competing to tell...
...child?'" A high-school teacher in Wollongong chided a boy who'd been ducking classes. The boy's mother complained to the principal that the teacher had acted out of racial prejudice - the boy's family are Pacific Islanders. To the teacher's delight - many teachers feel their bosses cave in to parental pressure - the principal told the mother that prejudice would have been exposed had the teacher done nothing...
...about U Street is that great jazz once again grooves there. Bo- hemian Caverns, at 11th Street and U, offers nightly shows, plus food named after musical legends--the Miles Davis is a lamb kabob--many of whom performed at the dark, moody venue built to look like a cave. For an artsier scene, check out U-topia, at 1418 U Street, which has live music every night and a full menu. HR-57, named after a congressional resolution to preserve jazz, puts on jam sessions and performances Wednesday through Saturday, at 1610 14th Street. The ambience is laid back...
...dark gray Mao suit, appeared in the east wing of Peking's Great Hall of the People to greet 60 U.S. business leaders and Time Inc. journalists traveling through Asia on a TlME-sponsored news tour. The group was led by Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Corporate Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan. In the past seven years, Deng, who was once sent into internal exile as a "capitalist-roader," has introduced broad and dramatic economic reforms that have decentralized decision-making and placed more reliance on free-market forces. In mid-September, he consolidated political backing...
...together they have given back $141 million in reduced pay and profit sharing over the past three years. Labor leaders fear that if Wheeling-Pittsburgh achieves its goals, other steelmakers will be inspired to seek their own concessions from workers. Said Don Caterino, a third-generation steelworker: "If we cave in, workers at other mills will get buried...