Word: echoing
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...sugar industry is severely depressed, and many workers at the mills are on layoff. But Panamanians insist that they will spurn any part of Nicaragua's sugar quota that might be offered to them. As for the Washington-supported military campaign of the contras, many Central Americans echo the concern of one Panamanian banker. Says he: "Honduras is being dragged in, and Costa Rica [where a second group of exiles is talking of infiltrating Nicaragua from the south] could follow. I feel the heat of war crossing our border too. If it does, it's goodbye...
...converses confidentially with the piped-in voice of a psychiatrist, and revisits and rejects his home. Although obviously still confused, he marries and starts his own family. The final image of the play is one of his bending close to his wife and first child, a reformed echo of the opening scene...
...Sandino Airport, the Pope was plunged into national politics. While the sunburned Pontiff stood in the blazing heat for an airport welcoming ceremony, Sandinista junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra delivered a 25-minute greeting, in which he blasted U.S. foreign policy and warned that "the footsteps of interventionist boots echo threateningly in the White House and the Pentagon." He told the Pope that the Nicaraguan people were "martyred and crucified every day, and we demand solidarity with right on our side." Ortega also went out of his way to tell the Pope that "Christian patriots and revolutionaries are an integral...
...best story I heard was from one sophomore who lived next to the bathroom in his suite. He could hear almost any noise in the bathroom, so he decided to set up two alarms, one in his room to wake him up and one in the shower which would echo in the bathroom. When he got to the alarm to turn it off, he was right there in the shower...
...basic karaoke set costs $400 and includes a cassette player and prerecorded tapes, a microphone, echo control and songbook. The closet Caruso simply turns on the music, finds his place in the songbook, picks up his microphone and croons away. Popular accompaniments range from work songs of Japanese farmers and favorites of World War II fighters to I Left My Heart in San Francisco...