Word: shores
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...there, Jordan or the Palestinians. Nonetheless, even though it is sure to raise some new problems, progress toward self-rule would be an improvement on the current festering of old ones. Even a lasting resolution of the Palestinian dilemma would not automatically bring stability to the Middle East or shore up all American interests there, but it would certainly help. Similarly, Israeli stubbornness is not the only obstacle to the pursuit of peace, but it is certainly a major...
...Then she turns again, having found no reason to speak, and once more looks out to sea. The young man, confused and troubled by what he has seen in her face, rejoins his fiancée, with whom he has been strolling, and retreats distractedly to the solidity of the shore...
...Rouse was born in the gracious Eastern Shore town of Easton, Md., itself a fine place for the growing of people...
Among the exhibits are re-creations of the watery environments of coral reefs and a section of the Maine coastline (assembled, ironically, from casts of rock taken along the shore of Massachusetts). The last is sure to be a hit with schoolchildren, since they will be able to pick up and handle living tidal organisms such as horseshoe crabs, moon snails and sand dollars. The 13-ft.-high viewing windows of two gigantic "race track" tanks, one atop the other, reveal the dark worlds of an Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot...
...help finance generous tax breaks for Canadian-controlled energy companies so that they could explore for oil on federally owned frontier lands such as the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. The plan would put foreign companies operating in those regions at a severe disadvantage, but it would help shore up a sense of Canadian national identity throughout the country...