Word: halfs
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BERLIN--A half-million East Germans thronged the streets of Leipzig in a hard, cold rain last night to demand free elections and unlimited freedom to travel abroad...
ARABS comprise 18 percent of the population of Israel proper. Israeli budget allocations, however, have never fully acknowledged their existence. As the Jerusalem Post reports, more than half of Arab families in Israel live below the poverty line. Even so, the Israeli government regularly provides Arab towns and villages with as little as one-third of the regular budget allocations and one-tenth of the development funding provided for equivalent Jewish municipalities...
Dean Acheson compared the task of his fellow statesmen at the end of World War II to the one described in the first chapter of the Bible. "That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material." The genesis that is now at hand may be just as formidable, because it involves transcending not chaos but a rigid order...
Snazzy makeup and special effects, however, are the stars of Monsters, a lively half-hour anthology, which each week delivers just what is advertised: a grotesque and usually malevolent creature, concocted under the supervision of makeup wizard Dick Smith (The Exorcist). Last season's menagerie ranged from an 8-ft.-tall bloodworm with carnivorous tastes to a woman who turned into a gigantic honeybee and flew off with her reluctant lover...
Sachs' message is simple: debtors must reform their economies by methods that include collecting more taxes from the elite, while U.S. banks must forgive at least half their $59 billion of loans to Latin borrowers. "I don't believe we should move in small steps," says the economist...