Word: disappearance
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Repentance is set in Georgia, the southern republic that was home to both Stalin and his dreaded secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria. Stalin never appears in the movie, but the main character, a local tyrant, is easily recognizable as Beria. Under his rule, people are arbitrarily arrested and then disappear. In one flashback, a woman searching for news of her missing husband hears about a delivery of logs carved with the names and addresses of prisoners. The woman searches in vain for her husband's name. Nearby another woman finds her loved one's name and caresses...
Questions about the role of Communists in the A.N.C. are hardly going to disappear. When Congress finally passed new U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa three weeks ago, it ordered President Ronald Reagan to issue a report early next year detailing any Communist influences on the A.N.C. The provision was inserted in the bill at the behest of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, who had been given access to unpublished CIA files on the A.N.C. Helms contended that the evidence shows A.N.C. leadership to be "fully penetrated and dominated by members of the S.A.C.P." As the group's exile continued...
...hottest real estate market in the U.S. Middle-income tenants who already can't afford to buy in the Massachusetts market and who can't or won't pay $1000 or more per month for old, small apartments will see the small supply of affordable rental housing in Cambridge disappear immediately. Essentially every tenant above the poverty income level will see his rent increase drastically despite no correspoonding increase in costs to the landlord or increase in the quality of the unit...
...life in the body moving through," he is referring to the results of the riders' self-discipline. When he mentions "finding a soft feel" in a horse, he's talking about friendship and trust. Quickly, any notions we might have had about human dominance over the animal disappear, and we stumble on the equality that truly links us -- animal to human to animal...
Even so, consolidation does not make it inevitable that the benefits of deregulation will disappear. Says Harvard Economist John Meyer, an expert on airline deregulation: "This may not mean the end of low fares, just the end of $99 transcontinental fares." The Department of Transportation's Scocozza argues that "as long as there is head-to-head competition in the marketplace, we should not be concerned." For every airline merger, Scocozza adds, "I see a smaller carrier taking its place." Houston-based TranStar, for example, is now offering a $79 fare between Miami and Los Angeles. As far as overall...