Word: fathoms
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...reason private jets no longer skim the Himalayas into Kathmandu is not hard to fathom. There is little glamour in the daily bloody shoot-outs between rebels and government forces that dominate the news from Nepal today. Squads of armed police and Royal Nepalese Army soldiers in armored cars and mine-clearing vehicles now guard every street corner in the capital. Gatherings of more than five people?even, Rana assumes, his famous parties?have been outlawed, and the city grinds to a halt every few days as armed police cordon off downtown blocks and break up protests against the crackdown...
Given eBay's sensational ascent, it's hard to fathom the considerable prodding it took to get Whitman on board. Then at toymaker Hasbro, she hesitated to uproot her family from Boston to join "this obscure Internet company" out in California. And even after she signed on, there were difficult times. The falling Internet sector dragged the company's stock down to a low of $30 a share. And in May a federal jury ruled that eBay should pay $35 million in damages for infringing on the patent of a Virginia firm that developed fixed-pricing technology; eBay has challenged...
There was never any question about what Chad Keith would do when he grew up. As a child, "he collected every G.I. Joe on the market," says his grandfather Charles Northrop. Keith's interest in the military was not hard to fathom: at least six close relatives had served. During his senior year of high school, he enlisted in the Army's delayed-entry program, and though he had never took part in track before, he joined the team, a move his coach now suspects was partly to help him prepare for basic training. After graduating from high school...
...cannot fathom the hatred for Hillary that burns in some conservatives. I am neither an admirer nor a detractor, but I'd vote her into the White House just to hear the screaming apoplexy that would erupt from radio and TV "hate-triots" who think they own America's heart. STEPHEN SCHLICH Petaluma, Calif...
...hard to fathom how executing schoolboys fits in with the t.n.i.'s overall campaign strategy in Aceh. When asked if it was okay for his soldiers to kill children suspected of being GAM members, army chief Ryamizard Ryacudu told TIME: "If they are armed and fire, they will be shot." (The villagers said the victims were not GAM members and were not armed.) The unsparing use of overwhelming force is only part of it. The military has also acknowledged its aim to separate GAM from its civilian supporters by herding up to 200,000 villagers into internment camps, a strategy...