Word: mutes
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...jobs. Others paid a higher price. Hundreds of Indonesian Chinese, accused by rioters of being accomplices to a corrupt regime, lost their lives or were raped in the violence that accompanied the ouster of Indonesia's long-serving autocrat Suharto. Abandoned half-built buildings throughout Asian cities stood as mute reminders not only of the shattered hopes of many an empire builder but also those of ordinary workers who could no longer send home money to their village for their daughters' schoolbooks or their sons' medicines...
...pages). Just as Sixty Lights segued seamlessly into Dreams, this pained, poetic tale of a young girl wracked by dreams of speaking seems to have been born from its predecessor. "We take it for granted, don't we?" muses 12-year-old Perdita Keene, a free spirit made mute by the violent death of her English anthropologist father near Broome, Western Australia, in World War II. "The inspiration and expiration that presses the vocal folds, the movement of air from the trachea, the vibration of the voice box, the issuing-unthinking, automatic-of air released into the mouth and fashioned...
...Senior CIA officer] Rob Richer, who was with me at the meeting, piped up, "No sir, I believe he is working for DOD." All eyes shifted to Don Rumsfeld. "I'll have to check what his status is," Rumsfeld said. His undersecretary for intelligence, Steve Cambone, sat there mute. "I don't think he ought to be working for us," the president dryly observed...
...should be in granting departmental alternatives. It is also essential that the administration not forget the problems faced by current students, who will graduate under the antiquated Core requirement. These students too should be offered much more choice than the Core currently allows. The proposed legislation, however, is largely mute on the subject of the transition between the two systems. It leaves that issue for the new Standing Committee to decide during the 2007-2008 academic year. Current students, however, cannot afford to wait a year for the committee to crack open the Core. We fear that recent efforts...
...What did the role teach you about being deaf and mute? I learned that about half the people who are deaf have a positive attitude. Some think of it as part of their identity. Even if you were not deaf and mute, if you went to a foreign country with a different language, you would feel isolated. If you are trapped verbally, I think anyone can feel this kind of isolation...