Word: constantly
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Briefing a small group of Western journalists last week, Chubais remarked almost casually that his whole government team, his family and his friends are under constant surveillance. Some are being offered "any money they like" to provide compromising material against him, he said. He refused to say on the record who was doing this, but a government official pointed to the MOST Group, Gusinsky's media and banking empire, headquartered just across the road from the government building where Chubais has his office. MOST's security organization, 600 strong and equipped with sophisticated technology, is headed by a former deputy...
...senior FBI official. "No one's talking. And even if they do, the history of these kinds of scandals is that cops go right back to acting as they always have when the dust settles, because the pressure they most feel is the pressure to produce results, the constant demand to get the job done...
...bitter fruit of George Bush's decision not to finish off Saddam is with us today: the suffering and death of thousands of Kurds and Arabs, constant subterfuge and concealment of Iraqi efforts to rearm with terrorist weapons, infliction of deprivation that Saddam blames on the U.N. sanctions, and a litany of other atrocious deeds. No wonder the Israelis, realists by bitter experience, are once again buying gas masks. Former President Bush, like Macbeth, has "scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it," with predictable consequences. DAVID H. SPODICK Northborough, Mass...
...season to be annoyed. In the brief weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break, most of us are so swamped with schoolwork and other obligations that we scarcely have time for ourselves. And as the semester grinds to a close, we often find ourselves in a constant state of being annoyed with people. There is temporary annoyance, when lack of sleep or too much pressure leads us to see everyone around us as getting in our way. Then there is annoyance as an attitude toward life, when we see everyone around us as getting in our way all the time...
When Payanzo deferred admission for two years to make her trip, little did she know a constant companion would hinder the spontaneity of her college career...