Word: shipped
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...delay as a deliberate downgrading of their country, the world's largest democracy, to second-class status. Images matter a great deal in foreign capitals, where people draw powerful conclusions from what they see on CNN. Carnegie's Goble recalls the embarrassing case of the U.S.S. Harlan County, the ship carrying U.S. military construction experts to Haiti that turned back when faced with a few government-paid thugs at the port. "If you think you might have to withdraw a ship," he says, "you don't send...
...director will be charged withreinvigorating HASCS, which has been plagued bystaff and space shortages, budgetary constraintsand poor working conditions. A confidentialmemorandum written earlier this year by RichardSteen called HASCS "a ship taking on water fasterthan it can bail...
...Medea sets sail for a new life. Most stagings leave her outside her home merely talking of departure. In director Jonathan Kent's version, a wall topples to reveal Diana Rigg apparently already at sea. Hunched during her period of rage and oppression, she stands proud as a ship's figurehead, clouds streaming past, golden light burnishing her. Then she turns and looks back, toward the scene of her unrepented misdeeds and, surely, toward an audience agape at the beauty and power of this finale...
...opposed to university money being spent upon art--I think an enormous bronze clipper ship or the statue or hand-lasted shoe to commemorate New England's economic contributions to America would go a long ways toward livening up the Yard--but I question whether Christo's desire to "re-envision" everyday structure by enfolding them in sensuously undulating fabric is truly appropriate to an institution devoted precisely to propping up our nation's "everyday structures...
...achieve a comprehensive peace in this region do not justify the treatment Jordan has received. The embargo has done tremendous damage to Jordan. We have lost a lot of our traditional markets. Insurance premiums have been almost impossible. We even have to pay for the inspection of the ships. And we have noticed an increase in this last year rather than a decrease in these inspections and interceptions offshore. We have lost 16 regular lines * that used to serve the port of Aqaba, our only access to the sea. We have lost over $1 billion...