Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strange but effective summary of North Korea's loneliness, the article concludes: "Its closest friends now are Cuba and Vietnam, neither of which is able to give much assistance." We are to understand that North Korea cannot afford to keep its problems so quiet if it wants to survive...
This is a reporter's take on the problem: the more publicity the better. However, Carter Eckert, professor of Korean History and the director of the Korea Institute, has a different take. The North is not being all that quiet, he stresses...
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The long-divisive issue of whether to grant families of Michigan State University's gay and lesbian employees health and other benefits came to a relatively quiet end Friday, following a decision by the MSU Board of Trustees...
...Egypt, the Le Rosey school in Switzerland and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Childhood friends remember him as pleasant and well bred, and touched by loneliness, owing in part to his parents' divorce. Says Zizette Kishk, a family friend from Alexandria: "He was a very shy and quiet boy who had somewhat of a sad air about...
...July that Dodi had pledged to marry her even as he squired Diana, accused him of writing checks to her that bounced. Yet along with these complaints, Dodi had plenty of associates willing to testify to his charm and affability. Khashoggi described his sister's son as "very quiet about life...a nice polite man, very courteous." Says a close friend: "He was with this one and that one, but he was very nice with them... Even when the story ends, he was very nice, acting like a gentleman...