Word: chaine
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...whether a chain is good or bad, but whether it is contributing to the community," says Kline. "Are they funding local sports teams? Are they part of local owners groups...
Looking like he has just walked off the set of Brother, Beat, medium height, rolling shouldered, a little paunchy in the middle, strolls into a hotel suite dressed in yet another gray Yamamoto suit. He chain smokes while he talks, and interrupts the conversation frequently to apply drops to moisturize his right eye. (The tear ducts were injured in a 1994 motorcycle accident.) Beat comes across as rough, and radiates a warning not to mess with him. The guy is calm, but it's the calm of a coiled spring. For him, violence and comedy both hinge on unpredictability. That...
...culmination of a draining struggle against complacency and despair. When Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was on the Pan Am flight, heard the verdict, he fainted in the court gallery. But the ruling also underlined another challenge: to start from this now legally established link and go up the chain to the real instigators. President George W. Bush said "the United States government will continue to pressure Libya to accept responsibility for this act and to compensate the families." British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook insisted that Libya is required to do both under the terms of a U.N. Security Council...
...California and Florida). The stakes are huge: the $3.5 billion in annual textbook sales is greater than the sales of all hardcover books to adults. Textbooks are superficial in part because they must conform to state standards, which are often encyclopedic in scope. But "the weakest link in the chain," according to education researcher Harriet Tyson, is "textbook evaluation." Most committee members have little time to examine texts thoroughly, frequently making decisions based on splashy graphics and frills like CD-ROMs...
...within the Cambodian army, ex-Khmer mates and the villagers along the 700-km border. He mainly sells AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades. "I sell them to my buyers but I don't know about the end users because there are so many people in the chain. I have some protection from my boss who runs a syndicate. He is close to the powerful people...