Word: stationed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sorry,” one once said to me mechanically as I tried to buy a new microchip Metro pass, (my old paper pass was being phased out by the city), “But rules are rules. You’ll just have to go to a different station, unless you want to fill out this form, mail it in, and wait four-to-six weeks...
...left her behind the counter and got on a train across Paris. Arriving at the city’s largest station, I tried again. “There is nothing I can do, sir,” I heard. “People like you come in here day after day, day after day. And I can only help those with proper identification. You’ll just have to come back with your photo ID next week...
...later Shenzhou VI carried two Chinese astronauts into space. This week's Shenzhou VII spacewalk is part of preparations for constructing a Chinese space lab. Subsequent flights would carry up the lab components, though Johnson-Freese notes that if China want to launch a larger vehicle, like a space station, or send a manned flight to the moon, it needs to develop a heavy lift launch rocket, which could take up to a decade...
...just that candidates are allowed to launch unfounded attacks against their opponents or make false claims about their own records. Broadcasters are actually obligated to run their ads, even those known to be false. Under the Federal Communications Act, a station can have a blanket policy of refusing all ads from all candidates. But they cannot single out and decline to air a particular commercial whose content they know...
...Less than a mile away from the inquiry, outside of the Stockwell Tube station where de Menezes died, a ragtag memorial of family photos, newspaper clippings and candles still hangs between a newsstand and a convenience store. This morning, fresh roses adorned the sidewalk along with new messages of support. "For Jean Charles and all of his family, our sorrow and anger are still with you." At least in this neighborhood, the anger is squarely directed toward the police. Regardless of their best intentions, by killing an innocent man, they did what the would-be suicide bombers had mercifully failed...