Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These migrant workers, who now number almost 1 million, remain outside the main stream of Saudi life, since most leave when their specific job contracts expire. In Al Knobar, shops cater to the thousands of Korean workers with window signs reading KOREAN SPOKEN HERE. Saudis complain that the Egyptian and Pakistani workers are responsible for the increase in burglary in a country that boasts one of the lowest crime rates in the world (in part, because thieves are punished by having their hands cut off). On occasion, Yemenites have gone on slowdown strikes, while Filipinos, Pakistanis and Koreans have demonstrated...
...still fresh, clear, wild and lovely, befitting a river that rises from a tarn-28 miles to the north-with the haunting name of Lake Tear of the Clouds. Visitors from Manhattan are always startled to see the locals cup their hands and drink right out of the stream...
rigged with half a dozen Gatling guns programmed to aim and fire simultaneously, raining eight thousand rounds a minute into an area the size of a football field, driving a bullet into every six inches of ground. As this lumbering weapons sytem circles a battlefield, the stream of lead is played back and forth like a murderous garden hose; all exposed living creatures...
Mary Gordon's Dover Road was actually a heavily Catholic section of Valley Stream, L.I. Her mother, "a nice Catholic girl" and now a legal secretary, has lived in the same house for 58 years. Mary, who is 29, sometimes feels, like Isabel, that the most interesting part of her life is her past. Her father's family were the only Jews in Lorain, Ohio. They managed to send their son to Harvard, but he dropped out and knocked around Europe for a few years. Says Mary: "He once started a girlie magazine called Hot Dog. When...
John Collins, 56, senior specialist in national defense at the Congressional Research Service. Responsible for providing the Congress with a steady stream of "issue briefs" on national security questions, Collins has just completed a detailed and controversial comparison of U.S. and Soviet military capabilities...