Word: harborers
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...wrote an article a couple of years ago recounting my experiences as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly Second Session on Disarmament [June 1982]. Outside the U.S. building a group was sitting and marching in silence in memory of Hiroshima. Not Pearl Harbor but Hiroshima. No one seems to realize that without Pearl Harbor there wouldn't have been a Hiroshima." He goes back to the beginning...
Though this snub has not sent crashing shockwaves across the Atlantic and into Boston Harbor, this seemingly archaic expression of parental approval of marriage, or matchmaking in the absence of parents, is not limited only to Balmoral. There are similar marital confusions and difficulties present in the United States...
...baby boy headed for higher ground. Even more critical, seismologists from Hawaii to Japan had the relevant phone numbers at hand to get in touch with officials in Indian Ocean nations. They, in turn, exhibited little of the indecisiveness that cost countless lives in December. "We were calling harbor masters, civil-defense people, and people in governments," says Barry Hirshorn, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center near Honolulu. "[If they didn't speak much English] we would just call and say, 'Major earthquake' and 'Tsunami warning,' and they understood...
...wasn't the tapes' prurient nature that shocked India. On the contrary, the nation seemed more entertained than disturbed at the exposure of an industry long assumed to harbor sleazy elements. What did cause genuine uproar, however, was India TV itself. The private lives of politicians and celebrities have traditionally been off-limits for mainstream newspapers and television. In that climate of restraint, India TV's methods were deemed as outrageous as its subject matter. "It's awful journalism," glowers the Hindu newspaper's editor in chief, N. Ram. His Indian Express counterpart, Shekhar Gupta, agrees. "You just...
...public, including a vast number of immigrants. It's ironic that when those same moaning scroungers end up in the emergency ward with injuries from a drunken fight, they are cared for by foreign-born nurses and doctors. People need to learn more about the prejudices they so steadfastly harbor. Martin Webb Reading, England Back-Channel Chats Your report "Talking With The Enemy" described secret meetings between U.S. negotiators and Iraqi insurgents [Feb. 28]. A cease-fire would be to the advantage of the U.S. and the rebels. The U.S. could arrange to keep military bases as a guest...