Word: silent
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...high mercury levels. "I thought eating this meat was fine because it is a Japanese tradition," he says. "But protecting our culture is not worth endangering our children's health." Junichiro Yamashita, the other member of the town council who opposes serving dolphin in school lunches, believes a silent majority supports his cause but is reluctant to speak publicly. "At the last town meeting, there was a lot of pressure from fishermen not to publicize the mercury results," he says. Some are afraid of losing their jobs if Taiji takes dolphin off the menu. But Yamashita is pushing an idea...
...what does it mean, exactly, to be a man these days? Once upon a Darwinian time, a man was the one spearing the woolly mammoth. And it wasn't so long ago that a man was that strong and silent fellow over there at the bar with the dry martini or a cold can of beer--a hardworking guy in a gray flannel suit or blue-collar work shirt. He sired children, yes, but he drew the line at diapering them. He didn't know what to expect when his wife was expecting, he didn't review bottle warmers...
...that the lawsuits did not call for the extradition of the two defendants from the United States to Bolivia, since only the U.S. and Bolivian governments—and not individual plaintiffs—can negotiate a possible extradition to Bolivia. The U.S. government, he added, has remained mostly silent on this issue, and the clinic has not seen any public statements from the government. “It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Becker said. “We’ve heard literally nothing.” The clinic has been working on the lawsuits...
...have these very long silent phases before you announce a campaign,” Faust said in an interview. “So there would be no way we could announce a campaign before 2010, even if we decided today to start our silent phase...
...shootout kept Westerns going strong for the first 70 years of Hollywood cinema. It began with the first smash hit at the nickelodeons, The Great Train Robbery, and continued with Cecil B. De Mille's The Squaw Man and John Ford's The Iron Horse in the silent era. Cimarron, a generational tale from Edna Ferber, was declared Best Picture at the fourth Academy Awards convocation...