Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lies," retorts Gro. "I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary." She realizes that her policies are being watched and copied, but argues that it won't do any good for Norway to act alone. "The climate will not change just because Norway changes its policies. We must search for common agreements in order to help carry others along...
What happened to the other 199,000 bbl.? Exxon professes not to know, a curious stance for a company that in other circumstances makes a corporate fetish out of accounting for every last barrel in its inventory. "I'm not going to speculate how much oil is left and where it is," says Sexton. As much as 25% of the crude may have evaporated in the early days after the spill. Much of the rest, guesses Lars Foyn, a fishery expert with the Marine Research Institute in Bergen, Norway, has become diluted in the water and disappeared. Most...
...relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later: "As far as I know a West Indian has never died in the cane fields...
...Japan, as in the U.S., baseball is a game of runs, hits and errors. But Japanese teams know the real ingredient for victory on the diamond is plenty...
Such jocks-apposed strategies come down hardest on the two American players who are permitted to play on each of Japan's twelve major-league professional teams. Usually older, fading stars, the Yanks go to Japan confident that they know how to play baseball, only to be promptly disabused of that notion. Japanese managers are ironhanded disciplinarians who believe that great players are made, not born, and they try to reshape the foreign players into the Japanese mold. The Americans, intense individualists that they are, rebel. The Japanese conclude that the Americans are rude, lazy, and worse, lacking...