Word: inhabitant
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...next five years -- a task comparable to the U.S. absorbing all of France. Washington has linked guarantees to a halt to new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. That link has been staunchly resisted by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who refuses to repudiate the right of Jews to inhabit all of the biblical land of Israel and rejects the U.S. argument that the settlements are a provocation to the Palestinians and thus an obstacle to peace...
...funny thing happened to the middle class, meaning, roughly, those who inhabit the middle of the income-distribution curve. If a middle-class life-style is defined by home ownership, vacations in Orlando and college for the kids, then a middle-size income was shrinking to the level of an inadequate pittance. While the price of housing and tuition went shooting through the roof, the median household income remained stuck where it has been ever since the late '70s, at about $30,000 a year. The curious result being that if you want to be middle class...
About 50 four-foot tall barrels inhabit The Recycle, each filled with a trove of loot for purchase. Monopoly pieces and galaxy sparkle paper go for 25 cents and CD cases for 50 cents. I purchased a roll of silver mylar tape for 40 cents as well as a 50 cent windup motor that clicks and unwinds...
...miracles hinges upon these distinctions. The subjective and objective flow into one another until the + distinction between the two is meaningless, just as the distinction between God and human vanishes. Reason has its mechanical uses in an ordinary world but is counterproductive in the higher realms that miracles inhabit. So says the believer's mystic line...
Follett has assembled quite a quirky cast of characters to inhabit his story. The Clipper list includes: Lord Oxenford, a British fascist fleeing arrest with his family; Carl Hartmann, a distinguished Jewish physicist escaping from the Nazis; Harry Marks, a bold and debonair jewel thief one step ahead of the authorities; Diana Lovesy, a bored and buxom housewife seeking adventure in America; and Tom Luther, a dangerous man with a dark mission (or is it vice versa...