Word: go
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only real suspense seems to be just how far Noriega will go to ensure Duque's triumph -- and how U.S. officials and irate Panamanians will react when the tainted returns trickle in. The Bush Administration is betting that the cocky Noriega will trip on his own blind determination. As Washington sketchs it, Noriega's supporters will resort to such blatant electoral fraud that Panamanians will take to the streets in furious protest, sparking a brutish response from the Panama Defense Forces. The international outcry will deepen Panama's diplomatic isolation, and eventually the economic and political erosion will reach such...
...industry has worked harder at wooing golfers than the hotel and resort business. As astronaut Alan Shepard showed in 1971 with his six-iron shot on the moon, golfers will go to practically any extreme to try out a new course. According to the National Golf Foundation, players spent nearly $8 billion of their golf outlays last year on travel. Marriott Hotels and Resorts, based in Bethesda, Md., currently operates 18 golf getaways in the U.S., plans to open another in Hauppauge, N.Y., this fall and has three more on the drawing board. "If we don't have golf...
...father was actually kind of an atheist. He sold crucifixes and 3-D pictures of Jesus door to door. Our house was full of them. You'd walk by and Jesus would blink or his hands would spread out. My mother liked Mormons. I'd go to church on Sunday and synagogue on Saturday. Later on, when I became a member and got baptized, my mother told me not to take it too far, that it was just the way we stayed safe...
...xenophobia. And since I felt on the fringe anyway, people's approval never mattered to me much. In fact, I thought it was my God-given mission to shock and upset people. I was always smart. I always knew what to say. When I was eight, I'd go around to churches talking about being a Mormon and a Jew. They call it manipulation when women do it. With men, they call it will...
...forgotten how to work and "had * got used to the fact that they are often paid just for coming to work." His harshest words were targeted at bumbling bureaucrats. Gorbachev told how one ministry had imported almost 30 million medical syringes without ensuring that there were needles to go with them...