Word: haunting
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...have to put those numbers in focus. Unfortunately, a few of our friends in the industry had some circulation issues, and I think they were very conservative in their accounting [this time around] so that they didn't have anything come back to haunt them. If you look at Gannett's numbers, we are not down anything, like a lot of the folks in the industry. And in fact USA Today, which just raised its cover price from 50˘ to 75˘, actually had a positive circulation for the period ending in April. Having said that, there is no doubt that...
...mystery solved is a mystery filed and at least half forgotten. A mystery unsolved, subject to endless speculation, has the power to haunt us as long as memory persists, as long as the human animal retains its power to sip Chardonnay and contemplate life's enigmas...
Those words would haunt Hariri for the rest of his life. Seven weeks after his meeting in Damascus, he resigned. Almost four months after that, he was dead, assassinated on Valentine's Day in rebuilt downtown Beirut, the jewel of his political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops...
...time in a term, that their child's a troublemaker can push a small percentage of parents over the edge. The informed estimate is that there are as many as 2,000 cases a year in Australia of parents punching, pushing, threatening or verbally abusing school staff. Violence can haunt teachers even when they're not physically harmed. "After the bell one afternoon," recalls an infants teacher formerly based in inner-city Sydney, "a dad asked me how his son was going. I said he was a little restless, but it was near the end of term...
...that the Soviets are talking about human rights at all. Notes one senior U.S. official: "Everybody here can judge this country's approach to the enhancement of human rights, and they can judge the other side's. We'll let those judgments rest." The offensive may come back to haunt the Soviets. While it is intended to put the U.S. on the defensive, it also opens the way for a closer look at the issue of human rights, an examination that the U.S. can only welcome. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and James O. Jackson/Moscow