Word: listeners
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Despite evidence that the U.S. is usually reluctant to exert pressure on Israel in matters of war and peace and doubts that Israel would listen anyway, Hussein sees Bush's experience in foreign affairs as reason for Arab optimism. "The U.S. can do much with Israel, and it needs to do much in the times ahead," he said. Bush "knows the area. With all due respect, I had many meetings with President Reagan, ((but)) he had other priorities. Of all the problems the world has, ((the Middle East)) is the most dangerous...
...Children were told they would be blinded if they saw Hirohito's face; the very mention of his name was taboo. Yet Hirohito was well aware that he was to be as much pawn as ruler. Even as his advisers refrained from looking at him, they also refused to listen to him. His divine authority was not enough to suppress the military officers who began taking control of the country in the 1930s...
BEHAVIOR: Can' t- wait, don' t- listen, won' t- stop kids...
WINGS OF DESIRE An angel, whose job it is to listen to the cries of human misery, falls to earth and falls in love. This astringent romantic fairy tale, from director Wim Wenders and novelist Peter Handke, imagines a West Berlin languishing in heartache and itching for spiritual redemption. It's funny...
...This year the earth spoke, like God warning Noah of the deluge. Its message was loud and clear, and suddenly people began to listen, to ponder what portents the message held. In the U.S., a three-month drought baked the soil from California to Georgia, reducing the country's grain harvest by 31% and killing thousands of head of livestock. A stubborn seven-week heat wave drove temperatures above 100 degrees F across much of the country, raising fears that the dreaded "greenhouse effect" -- global warming as a result of the buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases...