Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman who took enormous risks--she could have led a very leisurely life or followed a very pedestrian career," says Mahnaz Z. Ispahani, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and expert in Pakistani affairs. "Instead she chose a very difficult path, in a very difficult time, in a very difficult country...
Other factors contributed to the calm. When troops first appeared in Beijing's suburbs, they were met by crowds of citizens who peacefully blocked their path -- a Chinese version of "flower power." According to some Western analysts, the army leaders were made hesitant by the ambiguity of their situation. For example, the capital's hard-line mayor and party secretary passed on the martial-law order to the Beijing military command but without instructions as to when and how force was to be used...
...climbers, a motley assembly of shorts and sneakers, knickers and mountain boots, start out with cheerful hearts over a gentle, 5 1/2-mile path through rain forest to Mandara, a "village" of overnight huts. The second day is a more strenuous, 7 1/2-mile upward trudge through moorland to the Horombo complex of huts. Both sites were developed by the Norwegians as an aid project in the early 1970s. Today they could do with a little redevelopment...
Then what is the correct path? Since the two economies have become closely interwoven through joint ventures, investment and trade, the health of the total relationship has become far more important than one-upmanship by either country. As Aida writes, "The leitmotiv of Japan is not saints and villains engaged in mortal combat, but morally complicated human beings living together, confronting and battling one another from time to time, but ultimately yielding, compromising and coexisting in harmony." If Japan can extend that philosophy to its economic partners, relationships will thrive. In fact, the talk of Japanese internationalism is more than...
...every movie, every work of fiction, is a sequel -- the latest chapter in a book of stories as old as once upon a time. The narrative conventions are age-old too: that man defines his nature through action; that the path to wisdom winds through false friends and moral booby traps; that maps lead to buried treasure and X always marks the spot; that manly virtue will be rewarded with a king's garlands and a kiss at the fade-out. The Indy stories are just the most recent link in a chain forged at the first campfire, when...