Word: disappeared
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...restrictions. At week's end the government said it had detained several activists, including union members and at least one journalist, allegedly to prevent a wave of violence planned by the outlawed African National Congress. But if South African officials believe their country's race problems will disappear if a free press is unable to report them, they are only confusing the messenger with the message -- and may be underestimating their own people. As the Boston Globe observed last week, "Despots throughout history have found that the lust for freedom dies hard...
...personal chair is a position more presitigious than a tenured one because it only endows the salary of a specific faculty member, Hufton said. "When I leave, the chair will disappear...
...temporary: the collagen breaks down and is absorbed by the skin in anywhere from three months to two years. Though patients are tested for allergic reaction beforehand, about one out of every 50 who pass the exam develops a delayed reaction to the shots, usually tiny bumps that disappear in six months. Some doctors also fear that repeated injections might compromise the body's immune defense system and cause later illness...
Demographic data make very clear that familial languages disappear by the third generation in almost every case under the onslaught of the overwhelming monolingualism of the American society. There is little real danger, in the long run, that the U.S. will be anything but English speaking...
Terry Waite voices more or less the same view. The Anglican envoy returned to Britain last week grumbling angrily that international power games were complicating his efforts to win freedom for Anderson and Sutherland. Waite said he intends to disappear into the English countryside for a while and wait for some indication that a return to Beirut would be productive. He may have to wait quite a while. And it does not seem likely that the U.S. can soon resume contacts with Iranian officials of any rank concerning geopolitical questions. Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi sneered last week that...