Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LAST TUESDAY AFTERNOON, RON BROWN found himself with some time to spare in Paris before flying on to the Balkans. So he went over to the U.S. embassy and engaged Ambassador Pamela Harriman in a stroll along the Seine. As they walked and chatted, the Commerce Secretary could barely contain his enthusiasm over a scheme he had just cooked up involving 200 Big Macs, which he had managed to persuade a McDonald's manager in Croatia to give him, free of charge. His plan was to pick up the burgers in Zagreb, fly them to Tuzla and pass them...
...SHOULD NOT TRY TO CONTAIN OR appease China, the upstart superpower, without first exposing the latter's Achilles' heel [WORLD, March 25]. The overriding reason for Beijing's saber rattling during Taiwan's presidential election campaign is that China's leaders are scared of the ripple effect that Taiwan's march toward full-fledged democracy will have on its own 1.2 billion population. The masses, having seen Taiwan progress from a backward nation into a free, prosperous country, may demand to choose their own leaders through a similar election or a plebiscite on China's communist system. The only thing...
...with any part of the central administration, OIT is under constant pressure to contain and reduce costs, Margulies said...
...biblical research since the 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Or is it merely a scholar's overhyped thesis, unsupported by solid evidence? These questions swirl about three tiny fragments of papyrus at Oxford University known collectively as the Magdalen Papyrus. Ragged-edged and dun-colored, they contain snippets of three passages from Chapter 26 of St. Matthew's Gospel in Greek script. For more than 90 years, the papyrus scraps had been housed at the library of Magdalen College, the gift of an obscure British chaplain who bought them at an antiquities market in Luxor, Egypt...
...expectations of the framers of the randomization policy become true, most upperclass houses will contain fewer students that share a group of common interests. Instead, the houses will be home to broader, more diverse communities that are reflective of the College as a whole...