Word: poole
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Ponce de Leon went looking for the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida. For three elderly gents in a St. Petersburg retirement home, the situation is happily, treacherously reversed: without looking for it, they find the Swimming Pool of Youth in a mansion next door. The place has been rented out to a quartet of folks with the musk of mystery about them. They are, of course, from outer space -- Antarea, to be exact. They have come to retrieve a score of their comrades, stranded during an earlier expedition, who have reposed in giant sea pods off the Gulf Coast...
...preparing India for the 21st century. We have a substantial infrastructure, a large supply of technically trained manpower, a sizable management pool. In the area of technology, we have moved substantially ahead, and now we are ready to move ahead much faster and catch up with the more advanced countries. It requires a change in our attitude, a change in our educational system, a change in our industry so that it becomes more competitive. We must see to it that, without causing unemployment, we can (prepare) the next generation to deal with the new technology. And we have to achieve...
...skeptical. Doubters asked why, if Mengele had really died six years ago, his relatives in Gunzburg, West Germany, had not said so and thus avoided the publicity that has accompanied the recent intense worldwide hunt for the Nazi fugitive. The U.S., German and Israeli governments last month agreed to pool their resources in the hunt for Mengele. This week a five-man Brazilian team will begin comparing the bones and seven teeth exhumed from the grave with medical and dental records of Mengele, dating back to 1938, that have been sent from West Germany. But, as Forensic Expert De Mello...
...week to approve a system of apportioning customers to various long-distance services. Following a plan already adopted by Northwestern Bell, local phone companies will be required to ask customers several times to choose a long-distance carrier. If they do not pick one, they will go into a pool that will be divided up among long- distance companies on the basis of the proportion of customers who have already decided...
...despite Kohl's personal endorsement of the scheme last month. Mitterrand had previously rejected the Reagan proposal on strategic and political grounds. The French appreciated Kohl's remarks on the necessity of West European technological cooperation, particularly his support for a French-sponsored project to create an agency to pool efforts in space-age laser and particle- beam research...