Word: semis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Egyptian Boeing 737 (by coincidence, the same one that ended up as a charred hulk in Malta) and forced it to land in Sicily. There it disgorged four young Palestinians who had hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro and, before giving up, killed Leon Klinghoffer, 69, a semi-invalid U.S. citizen. An Italian court has already convicted the four men of illegal weapons possession; in the spring they are due to go on trial for piracy and murder...
...about him." Richardson found that this happened even to veteran Other Women on their third or fourth affair. The single woman who falls in love with a married man often creates a private culture of shared jokes, "month-iversaries," and a scrapbook or photo album that takes on a "semi-sacred" character by affirming a relationship that cannot be made public...
...press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speeches touting Social Security reform and the Patriot Act-and his stubborn consistency was both admirable and annoying. His unwillingness to drop Social Security reform in the face of lousy polling results is certainly admirable. He has changed the emphasis from semi-privatization of old-age pensions (although he still favors that change) to the solvency of the system, and he has proposed a creative solution, progressive indexing, which would modulate benefits according to income, with the poor receiving proportionately more than the wealthy. This is an idea Democrats would embrace...
...effort to make friends with everyone at Harvard, armed with his infectious grin, makes him an ubiquitous campus semi-celebrity, tailor-made for the Senior Class Committee. He boasts 594 Harvard friends on thefacebook.com, and his profile lists “Talking to People, Interacting with People and Monkeys” as interests...
...think that semi-discouraged them because they didn’t move the whole race,” Howard said. “I think they were worried that if they ever gave anything up, they wouldn’t be able to get it back...