Word: drift
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...just drift from station to station, nation to nation, looking for nothing in particular. If you find yourself awake and restless in the darkest part of your night, it's kind of comforting to listen to someone else's dawn...
...Both Riester and Müller agree the work-scape has changed since the laws were last refined in the 1970s: more temporary workers have joined the rolls, and larger companies have divided into semiautonomous units subject to less regulation. But where Müller hails a positive drift toward flexibility, Riester sees companies evading their social responsibilities. Still, the two ministers agreed in February to bring temps under the protection of works councils and to lower the size of companies required to have full-time councilors from 300 to 200. They also agreed to expand council activities to include...
This sense of outrage lurks in the shadows of his texts. In Kingdom, Hungarian emigre Nicholas Morath is drawn ever deeper into clandestine missions he doesn't understand to stop his country's drift into collaboration with the Nazis. Though Furst sees himself as a political novelist, he has chosen a storyteller's genre, and his books do not stand on a soapbox. His tales have got leaner as he keeps refining them down, explaining less, saying more in fewer words. While there is a moment in every book when some character cuts to the bone to pinpoint the evil...
...ship that ran aground off the coast of southern France on Saturday. The Cambodian-registered East Sea appeared to have been deliberately run on to Boulouris beach near Saint Raphael. "The captain has fled, leaving the boat facing land, the propellors turned so that the boat cannot drift away," said Saint Raphael mayor Georges Ginestat. Rescuers believed the boat had left Greece eight days earlier and had stopped in Turkey. The vessel's human cargo, including 300 children under age 10, were assumed to be potential illegal migrants. None was seriously injured when the boat was beached, though a French...
...There are more potential pitfalls. Among other things, the possibility exists that as transgenes in pollen drift, they will fertilize wild plants, and weeds will emerge that are hardier and even more difficult to control. No one knows how common the exchange of genes between domestic plants and their wild relatives really is, but Margaret Mellon, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' agriculture and biotechnology program, is not alone in thinking that it's high time we find out. Says she: "People should be responding to these concerns with experiments, not assurances...