Word: interment
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Under the terms of an inter-club agreement, the five-week "punching" season ends on the Sunday night before Thanksgiving, when members meet to elect new members who have gone through a weeding-out process that involves attendance at social functions and outings...
Among the prize finds: three elegant ceramic pots made between 3500 and 2500 B.C., one with incised designs, that were placed atop the legs of a buried body; a large vessel with an intricate scroll pattern, dated 3000 to 2000 B.C., that was used to inter a two-year-old child, and a plain cup found near by that might have contained food for the baby; and two iron spearheads with bronze sockets (to hold wooden handles), dated 800 to 400 B.C., which are among the oldest iron objects found in eastern Asia...
Sitting in plush green armchairs in the ballroom of Geneva's Inter-Continental Hotel, the ministers last week quickly agreed to cut production. But then they wrangled for 2% days over how to divide up the cutback. That renewed oil industry doubts about OPEC's ability to live up to its decrees. During a cordial but "extremely frank" meeting, as one participant described it, ministers from Iran, Venezuela and Algeria lambasted their Nigerian colleague for helping to set off the crisis. Citing Nigeria's dire economic woes, Oil Minister Tarn David-West rebuffed pressure to restore...
...everyone present knew, the coy assessment by Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates understated the gravity of the situation. Ministers from six of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries huddled for 1½ days last week at Geneva's Inter-Continental Hotel to devise a scheme to halt the slide in oil prices. The cartel's current crisis began two weeks ago, when OPEC member Nigeria followed price cuts made by nonmembers Norway and Britain...
...agenda, be its principal spokesman and act as his party's prime troubleshooter on the floor. It is almost certain that the Republican Party will maintain its dominance in the Senate--but the character of the person it chooses to guide it will have a large impact both on inter-party relations and on the policies that come out of the 99th Congress...