Word: ranging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Early last Wednesday evening the phone rang in the home of our Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth. On the line was bureau chief Jordan Bonfante with urgency in his voice. "Are you aware that rioting and gunfire have broken out over the Rodney King verdict?" he asked...
After 15 minutes of silence, a graduate student read the names of the nearly 60 people who died in the rioting, ringing the bell after each name. He rang the bell 16 times for the 16 unidentified victims...
...Lisle's xenophobic reference to standards encrusted in the blood of retreating foreigners -- an image, ironically, that members of the ultra-right National Front must actually find quite appealing. But less ideological traditionalists are now rallying against the Milquetoast meddlers, denouncing the notion of tampering with the song that rang through the torchlit streets of revolutionary France as nothing short of traitorous. Sure, the Marseillaise "is ridiculous," concedes novelist Michel Tournier, "but we should leave it alone because, like old furniture, it gains in value over the years...
Yeltsin's words rang true on the streets of Moscow last week when communists and ultra-nationalists clashed with police during an antigovernment demonstration. Despite outnumbering the 5,000 demonstrators 2 to 1, city militia and riot police responded with billy clubs when the crowd broke their cordons. The clashes left 20 policemen and seven civilians injured...
...urban areas that have the prerequisite pay-phone networks. Farther afield, Comverse is eyeing markets in developing countries from South America to the Far East. The company has links with major distributors like Samsung in Korea and Oki in Japan, as well as Alcatel, the French telecommunications giant, which rang up the Mexican deal...