Word: land
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Just offshore from the island, we took on a bearded man who had tied his boat to a buoy so we could land at the one-boat pier. He was there to work on the north tower's brick work; a group of workers were being put up in an "apartment" adjacent to the keeper's house...
What elsewhere one sees only in travel brochures, one finds in Thailand daily. It often seems, in fact, as if ancient gods -- Bacchus, Neptune, Zeus and Venus -- conspired to make the land a composite of holidaymakers' fantasies. Here is a never-never land built on solid ground; a fairy-tale monarchy ruled by a Renaissance King and his classically beautiful Queen; an orchid-scented garden of scintillant temples, lush jungles, palmy white beaches and a capital built along tree-shaded canals; and a gentle Buddhist retreat filled with smiling, gracious people who make "tourist industry" sound like a contradiction...
...world; and one of its 63 discos is among the world's three biggest. Here, in fact, is a travel agent's dream: first-class services at Third World prices, exoticism crossed with elegance. With the Thai baht tied to the declining dollar, Thailand has come to mean the "Land of the Free" in more ways than one. Yet at the same time, the sinuous grace of the land is matched by its bilingual efficiency (a visitor at Bangkok's spanking new airport can go from touchdown to taxi in roughly 15 minutes...
...Asian escapes like Sri Lanka and the Philippines. On the map, the kingdom is ringed by countries that sound ominous: the People's Republic of Kampuchea, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma. Yet the land itself, for all its cyclone-cycle coups, is a pocket of relative calm and one of Washington's surest friends: the more the government changes, the more the monarchy stays the same...
...opinion polls two months ago, his base of probable electoral votes was no better than even with George Bush's. Today the Bush bulge, though marginal nationwide, translates into an intimidating electoral count approaching 270. This allows Bush greater flexibility in pursuing important states in no-man's-land and in attacking Dukakis territory. Dukakis, like a combat surgeon, must practice triage as he allocates precious assets to regions where his prospects can survive. His brave talk about waging a 50-state campaign rings hollow as his managers throttle back in about 15 states, most of them in the West...