Word: grounds
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Putatively, it was all about a hole in the ground, dug by the Israelis in Arab East Jerusalem to complete an ancient tunnel showing off the buried foundations of Judaism's sacred Western Wall. Palestinians considered the digging a provocative incursion into their terrain, but in truth, it was only the match thrown into the tinderbox of accumulated Palestinian fury. For months, Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials had warned of an impending explosion in the territories. In August, Ali Jirbawi, a political scientist at Bir-Zeit University in the West Bank, said, "Scratch the surface, and you find a state...
...Neither his reluctant summit with Arafat last month nor the subsequent follow-up meetings produced any progress toward the expansion of Palestinian authority in the West Bank promised in the Oslo accords. Says a senior Western diplomat in Israel: "The Israelis talk the talk, but nothing changes on the ground." Adds Khaled al-Qidrah, Arafat's attorney-general: "The behavior of the Israeli side is killing this agreement...
...million engine plant in Buffalo, West Virginia, and the T100 pickup plant in Princeton. Toyota is expanding other facilities, like its Corolla factory in Cambridge, Ontario. There's a $310 million technical center abuilding in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Toyota recently opened the world's largest proving ground, a 12,000-acre property outside Phoenix, Arizona. "We can now do everything the Big Three do," says Yale Gieszl, Toyota's American-born executive vice president for U.S. sales and marketing. "The flag of the parent company is really irrelevant...
Like Harvard, Lafayette's offense largely circulates around its ground game. Leading the charge for the Leopards (2-1, 0-0 Patriot League) is sophomore Leonard Moore, last year's Patriot League Rookie of the Year, who leads the league in rushing (110.0 yards per game...
...proposed design features a life-size sculpture of a couple as they flee Ireland to escape the famine. As Flaherty told the commission, the statue shows a mother, too weak to go on, sitting on the ground, holding her dying child and bidding goodbye to her husband and other child...