Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slit-eyed world of a country village, the boy's mother Miriam conceived him mysteriously. Promised in marriage to Yosef the builder, she found herself pregnant without explanation--she had known no man, not intimately. Steeped in the malice of small-town talk, she knew not to tell the story she believed--God's archangel Gabriel had visited her at the village well one early-spring morning as she lifted her jar to climb back home...
...with the most anti-American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers' emotions," said Jorge Mas, head of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Besides powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms--who tightened the embargo in 1996 after Castro's air force shot down two small U.S. civilian planes near Havana--Mas has two other key allies: presidential contenders George W. Bush and Al Gore, who need Florida's electoral votes...
...idea sounds good on paper but is tricky to execute. Every year millions of gems, ranging in size from small specks to major stones, are sorted into 14,000 categories before they are cut and polished, making it nearly impossible to mark each one in a way that could be retained from mine to showroom. Says Willy Nagel, a top De Beers broker in London: "The certification of diamonds is not foolproof. Smuggling is so widespread and so difficult to combat that one way or another, the UNITA diamonds are going to get on the market...
...character called Laura Cruise was sketched out but got the boot because "she sounded too American." When Lara Croft arrived, "we went over the top making her British." The fictional Lara is a graduate of Prince Charles' alma mater, despite the small obstacle that--as Smith points out--the school doesn't admit women...
...that Girl Power was much on Smith's mind seven years ago. He was pursuing a successful career selling computer-design systems to firms like Rolls-Royce when his brother Jeremy lured him to Jeremy's small publishing company, Core, which was beginning to move into computer games...