Word: resorts
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...predawn darkness, Israeli naval officers spotted the rubber dinghy heading south toward the northern Israeli resort town of Nahariya. Ducking fire, the craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad...
Southport, where all of these dogged takes are going on, has been occupied territory since early May. It is a pretty and formerly sleepy little resort and fishing town, with a white clapboard church and live oak trees shading wooden houses with deep-set front porches. Town elders were unenthusiastic about becoming part of Mississippi, as the script stipulates, and having the town square blockaded. Then it was pointed out that the film company would spend a lot of money in town--$3 million or more is the current guess. Done. Once the deal was cut, the production company rented...
...United States and Britain, George Bernard Shaw once remarked, are two nations separated by a common language. Today he might say much the same thing about the U.S. and the whole world. ICE CUBOS, says a sign in the Mexican resort of Acapulco. Lebanese audiences watching Rambo shout exhortations in English, and a Japanese rock-'n'-roll hit begins, "Let's dancin' people/ Hoshi-kuzu nagarete feel so good...
Allied officials leaked word that unless the measure was rescinded, their countries might retaliate by canceling planned high-level visits to East Germany. U.S. diplomats in Bonn denied reports that the responses under consideration could include, as a last resort, a break in relations. But, warned one U.S. diplomat, "talk of it might just sober up the East German government...
Hmmmm. Does this pattern sound familiar? It's merely the road to academic success followed by the wise liberal arts student at Harvard. No need to resort to anything so crude as sleeping with your section leader or depositing large checks in a numbered account at Bay Banks. Sidle up to your most prominents professors and tell them what they want to hear. If you have any wits at all, hitching your wagon to enough academic engines can lead to a summer job, fellowships, and best of all, hot reccomendations for the grad school or job of your choice...