Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along the way, he manages to dally with two Cossack women and one semi-Chinese Amazon known as the Silk One. He picks up fluent Russian and pushes into Pushtu and Persian. As usual, his feats are preposterous and irresistible-if they happen to strike the reader in the right mood. Well and good, but Fraser had better not rest on his laurels. American Flashmaniacs can hardly be expected to wait much longer for him to come across with the great man's oft-hinted-at memories of cutthroat days at Little Big Horn and gunfights with Kit Carson...
...promise is peace--that's my contract with you," Guru Maharaj Ji told an overflow audience of 6700 followers at War Memorial Auditorium. He spoke from a red velvet throne mounted on a satin covered platform, and covered with a suspended semi-circle of cut glass crystals that broke the auditorium lights into an artificial rainbow...
...admit semi-defeat. I can see only one benefit from these bird droppings, and that is a new fad I suppose to start right now. We merely add Seagull to the end of anyone's name whom we distrust. Try, John W. Dean Seagull III, or Senator Edward M. Kennedy Seagull '54 (D-Mass.), or even Erich Segal Seagull. Children understand...
Despite this semi-official speculation on progress, there are individuals, including city councillor Saundra Graham, as well as citizens' groups who will not on faith alone accept architect Monacelli's views. Brooks himself remarked that he "could not say with assurance that the Kennedy Library was here to stay...
...badly implemented at its start. "We may have funded too many programs too quickly," he says. "There was a general desire to throw the money out, to get things going." Only now is OMBE setting up a computerized evaluation system to monitor the performance of the 160 semi-autonomous Business Development Organizations in 40 states that carry out the bulk of its work. With the new system. OMBE officials will be able to decide which BDOs have been effective in creating new businesses, and which have failed to measure...