Word: neighbors
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...movement of the two plates opposite the Cocos-the northern portion of the Americas Plate, which carries Mexico, the U.S. and Canada and generally moves in a westerly direction, and the Caribbean Plate, which carries part of Central and South America and moves toward the east, relative to its neighbor. This movement is slow, perhaps no more than 1½ in. a year. But the strains created as these two huge masses slide against each other are enormous. For at least 200 years, there has been no major movement where the plates meet in Guatemala. Two weeks ago, with...
...exports. Should the F.N.L.A-held city of Santo Antonio do Zaire, at the mouth of the Congo River, fall to the M.P.L.A., the Luanda regime would have control over Zaire's only major outlet to the sea. Mobutu is due to meet sometime this month with his cross-river neighbor, Congo President Marien Ngouabi, a past Mobutu foe who strongly supports the M.P.L.A. The betting is that Mobutu will approach Ngouabi for some sort of deal with Neto to protect his Atlantic access...
...cast seems to go gaga about being on the same stage with Katharine Hepburn, and so does Hepburn. She delivers the fizzed-out Schweppigrams that pass for lines as if La Rochefoucauld had bottled them. Ask your neighbor hood palmist what they, or the play, mean. As for Hepburn, she may or may not care. Give a star a star turn and vanita somnia vincit...
...Harvard has many courses in the history and literature of many countries, yet no courses are being taught about Canada, our nearest neighbor," Staines said...
CAINE AND JACKSON are not a typical middle-aged couple: they are intelligent, articulate, cultivated and rich. They are sexually uninhibited--when a neighbor interrupts them making love on the lawn they are completely unperturbed. He is successful and likes his work; she seems unconcerned by her own lack of a career. only problem with their lives, seemingly, is its lack of problems. They react to this situation in three ways--boredom, guilt about their affluence, and obsession with the nastier aspects of life even material security and good taste cannot overcome--loss of control and death. The wife...