Word: merchanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better education than most members of the street gang he hangs around with in the riot-scarred Liverpool slum of Toxteth. He has three years' experience as a galley boy on merchant vessels and, most important, a declared willingness to work hard. What Steve McGurty, 21, does not have, and is not likely to get, is a job. The merchant marine will not take him because he fell behind in his union dues. The army turned him down because he was fined $37 for being drunk and disorderly after a New Year's party. An architect...
...opera's plot is a domestic tragedy with universal implications. Katerina is the sexually frustrated wife of a rich provincial merchant, Zinovy, and the object of the thinly disguised passion of Boris, her lecherous father-in-law. Into her life comes Sergei, a handsome young worker. The pair become lovers, but Boris catches them in feverish embrace and publicly whips Sergei. Katerina coldly poisons Boris in revenge, and then she and Sergei compound the crime by strangling Zinovy. When the village drunk later stumbles across Zinovy's body, he alerts the police at the moment when Katerina...
...fluent Spanish. All of the arrested men are Indians who speak limited, heavily accented Spanish. Two of those arrested, Farmers Esteban Coche Leanda, 19, and Juna Quiju Caj, 25, actually were friends of Father Rother's. The third, Miguel Angel Mendoza Tecun, 32, is a well-known local merchant...
...first it looked like a fleeting flap, handled swiftly and skillfully by the Administration to limit the damage. Max Hugel, a millionaire merchant with no visible qualifications to hold his post as director of clandestine operations for the CIA, had been publicly accused of illegal stock manipulations by two vengeful Wall Street brokers who had gone bankrupt trying to promote stock in Hugel's former business. Denying any wrongdoing, Hugel nevertheless promptly resigned as the CIA's deputy director of operations and was quickly replaced by a career CIA operative, John Henry Stein. Sighed a White House aide...
...American Government attacked the torturers and sympathized with the tortured." Finally, he contended that the U.S. was giving the Soviet Union an "unwarranted propaganda advantage" by shunning arms-control talks, and argued that Reagan's approval of large weapons sales was restoring "our former reputation as arms merchant of the world...