Word: properer
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...says, but the respiratory systems from one company don't match the helmets from the other. "The whole set could have been bought from either company," says the MCHS staffer, "but two different officials buy respiratory systems and helmets. Each wants his cut. The result: we don't have proper equipment. God forbid a chemical attack hits Moscow. There might be hell to pay." ? By Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow...
...survey includes 122 questions ranging from the proper pronunciation of the word “poem” (with one syllable or two) to the name of the grassy area in the middle of a street (boulevard, midway or island, among others...
...confides. "He's like Chauncey Gardner, the Peter Sellers character in Being There." Later that night, when it finally does come time for the apple man to leave, he gives half of his salary back to the rinpoche, asking that it be saved so he can have a proper cremation when he dies...
...dangerous here," says Abu Maria, an Algerian who was at Abu Hamza's prayers last Friday. "We can't go anywhere." In Italy, too, tension is high after restrictive anti-illegal immigration laws came into effect last year that make it obligatory for police to detain anyone without proper papers. The crackdown limits the possibility for immigrants to begin building a life for themselves, and "forces some into illicit activity, like producing false documents, that offers support to terrorist organizations," says a Bologna prosecutor involved in terrorism investigations. "Immigration doesn't mean terrorism. Of course, the terrorist can take advantage...
...Japan actually began transforming the SDF into a proper military more than a decade ago. To get around legal constraints and a national queasiness about war, Japan's pro-military contingent learned the strength of the flanking maneuver: rather than take on a battle over a constitutional amendment, the government stealthily broadened the SDF's powers through incremental legislation, mostly since the 1991 Gulf War. During that conflict, Japan suffered international ridicule for not sending armed forces to the Middle East. Japan explained that its constitution forbade participation, but the rest of the world saw a nation of "economic animals...