Word: slaving
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...have none. I don't want to be the slave of any passion anymore, including women. When I really like someone a whole lot, I've got to marry her or stay friends. One of my best friends was Ava Gardner. And I never attempted to make love with her because I didn't want to do anything to ruin our wonderful friendship...
...Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label." Joe Sandoval, purchasing manager for the county, requesting computer-parts vendors to cease referring to certain products as "master" and "slave...
...Trutnov. They line a narrow path that leads up to a polished granite plaque. In the brutally blunt language common to postwar reckoning, the sign reads: here are buried 41 jewish girls murdered by the Nazis at a labor camp in Porici near Trutnov. The girls had all been slave laborers, and they had died between the ages of 14 and 29. On Monday morning, Lucie Motycková, the caretaker, noticed that 15 of the tombstones had been kicked over and broken off cleanly at the base. It had probably happened the night before, on the anniversary of Kristallnacht...
...says Americans had difficulty pronouncing Passat when it launched. (Never mind fahrvergnugen.) But that doesn't dispel the sense that VW's marketing department is in triage mode. VW named the Touareg for a rugged tribe of African nomads. But it turns out that the tribe held and traded slaves until the 20th century--a poor association for a company that used slave labor during World War II. Last summer Pischetsrieder's worldwide sales and marketing chief Robert Buchelhofer resigned under pressure and was replaced with several executives who each command one brand...
...left the Party a year before, issued a stream of public protests. Hoang Minh Chinh, 81, a war veteran who's been imprisoned several times, was at the courthouse last week to support Tien. "If I am afraid to speak out," he said, "I am no better than a slave." For some old revolutionaries, the fight goes...