Word: nearing
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Stephen loves Christine, in his fashion. He pampers his girls and introduces them to his randy friends because he likes being liked. His sin is in assuming, like nearly everyone who jestered near the thrones of power in Britain and America, that the games could be pubic without ever going public. Enter Profumo (Ian McKellen), who in his high-domed hairdo looks like a samurai of probity. Jack is an indiscretion waiting to happen. He has so little furtive pleasure to gain, and so much reputation to put at risk, that his dalliance has the lurid fatalism of a soap...
...slapped together by an aide). On the surface, at least, the sales look like a blatant attempt to slide around House limits on members' outside income; honorariums for speeches are restricted, but book royalties are not. In several cases Wright's staff members pointed out that the Speaker was near his limit on honorariums and suggested that organizations buy books instead of paying him directly. Wright refused to answer any questions about the book last week; if he or Oldaker has a plausible explanation, neither has come forward with...
...people dead and terrorized residents. Among the victims were Salcido's wife and two daughters, ages 4 and 1. A third daughter, 3, barely survived a throat slitting. Suspecting that Salcido might flee to his native country, U.S. officials alerted Mexican authorities, who caught him at a railroad station near Los Mochis...
...actual abortion that lasts 84 seconds and shows two aborted embryos, amounting to about two tablespoons of blood and tissue. The point is to illustrate that what is removed during most abortions -- more than 90% are carried out in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy -- is not the near human figure of pro-life displays...
...some French fries and a dish of maple-walnut ice cream. That was what one had been doing on the superhighway to Washington ever since it was built back at the dawn of the Republic. But when that familiar orange roof loomed up out of the rain near Wilmington, Del., it turned out that the orange roof covered only a Howard Johnson motor lodge and the adjoining restaurant called itself Bob's Big Boy. It would be uncharitable to criticize a Big Boy restaurant for not being a Howard Johnson's, but when one has been looking forward...