Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jordan has worked for a negotiated settlement of the explosive Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, drained after months of unsuccessful efforts to enlist Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, into the peace process, Hussein announced that he had reached "an end to another chapter in the search for peace...
...more big tankers stand idle in fjords along the coast of Norway. At the port of Fujairah, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Harbor Master Roger Turnbull begins each day in his control tower by counting the empty ships that appear on the horizon in their almost futile search for cargo to carry. One morning this month he counted 55, then two days later, 69. Says he: "They drift in during the night, and when we wake up, they're just sitting there waiting...
Police closed off the entire capital to search for the killer. A police report said squad cars chased a Volkswagen sedan headed north...
During its first half, the movie revolves around Eliot and Lee's affair and Holly's manic moods. Mickey begins a desperate search for "the meaning of it all," after a false alarm that he has cancer gives him an intimation of mortality. It is a world of petty vices like alcohol and cocaine. In the hierarchy of values, sexual pleasure ranks above marital fidelity and sibling loyalty...
...just profitability, but palatability is on the rise. While baseball wrings its hands in search of a drug policy amenable to both sides, the basketball players and owners have calmly installed a straightforward plan providing for education, rehabilitation and punishment. The first time a player comes forward with a heroin or cocaine problem, he is suspended with pay, treated at the team's expense and reactivated. The second time, he is suspended without pay; the third time, banned for a minimum of two years and possibly for life. John Drew of the Utah Jazz has achieved the last plateau...