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...A.N.C. gave the government until last Wednesday to outlaw the weapons. But De Klerk would not go beyond a meek compromise offer, allowing the weapons to be carried only on genuinely ceremonial occasions. Rather than let yet another deadline -- the third it has set in the past three weeks -- slide by, the A.N.C announced on Saturday that it would suspend talks with De Klerk on a new constitution until he made "progress" in meeting its demands. The A.N.C. will probably also boycott an all-party peace conference called by the government for this week, but De Klerk insisted he would...
...glossy brochures of Kentucky pastures, Minnesota lakes, South Dakota prairies, Houston skylines and Indiana sunsets convey not who Americans are but what foreign investors want to see -- mainly people who are white, rural, nonunion, eager to work hard and unlikely ever to make any trouble. Sometimes the pitch seems meek and submissive. Listen, for example, to Mike Doyle, international development director of the State of Iowa: "Iowa has a lot in common with Japan. We like to promote the homogeneous relationships within Iowa. We are a morally conservative state that appeals well to Asiatic society. Iowans also revere their elders...
...wrote back. "You corrected an error on my return? Getcho hands off my return!" Then I tore that up and sent, instead, a meek request that they identify my error. Call it a sixth sense I have for dealing with bureaucracy...
From the beginning, the main characters were unable to convincingly handle the script's complex rhyming dialogue. In the first scene, Arnolphe discusses unfaithful wives and meek husbands with his friend Chrysalde (David Gerster). Little does Arnolphe know that he will soon be the victim of the cuckoldry he so readily mocks...
Precisely what makes the Endangered Species Act unique is that it views the % world not through man's eyes but from the high ground of the Creation. It sets no test for survival and respects the meek as it does the mighty. The humpback whale and the black rhinoceros enjoy no greater protection than the noonday snail and the lakeside daisy. Recently an inch-long unpigmented eyeless shrimp found in a sinkhole near Gainesville, Fla., joined the ranks of the imperiled. In shielding the humblest species, the act expresses its highest reverence for diversity, and has evolved into an almost...