Word: shore
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...stand-up comics who had spent years giving away their jokes for free at Mitzi Shore's Comedy Store, the Norma Rae moment came late one night at Canter's Deli. A few of the Store regulars were lingering in a booth when Jay Leno walked in and cried, "What is this bullshit...
...seagoing character on its face, with tugs and barges chugging up and down the harbor a stone's throw from the skyscrapers of the banks and trading houses. London and New York, by contrast, politely hide their tattooed seafarers' muscle out of sight, downriver or on the Jersey shore. But the sense of being a blue-water place is vital to the cities' success. It has made them open to trade, with all the transformative capacity that trade has to shake up established orders and make the exotic familiar...
...best science is often done at the interface of disciplines,” said Stephanie Shore, a senior lecturer in physiology at the school, who said that nearly half of her colleagues work over three miles away at the Landmark Center. “You often make progress in science not so much by staying in your own laboratory, in doing what you always do, but by talking to other people who know different things than...
...Pyongyang with Kim Jong Il, marking just the second inter-Korean summit ever. The North may also be on the brink of a historic peace agreement with the U.S. - one that President George W. Bush, in his last year in office, appears to want desperately in order to shore up his controversial foreign-policy legacy. A deal between Washington and Pyongyang - predicated on the North verifiably giving up its nuclear-weapons program - would open diplomatic relations between the two countries for the first time since the Korean War, and prompt Washington to remove North Korea from its list of states...
...vulnerable. He had a deal with Bhutto; he did not have one with Sharif, who was Prime Minister at the time of Musharraf's coup in 1999. Musharraf's successor as army chief, General Ashfaq Kiyani, has kept a low profile since his promotion and has done little to shore up his former mentor's position. That has led some analysts to speculate that Musharraf's time at the center of Pakistani politics may soon...