Word: suit
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...view does not neatly fit the Western mold. At its most fundamental, Museveni's ideology is what he calls "Bantuphone," a term he coined loosely meaning made in Africa, not inherited from some colonial master. He wants Africans to look after their own destiny as they pursue modernization, to suit their systems to local conditions. "It's high time," he told TIME, "that white people left Africa alone and started minding their own business." Likewise Africans must "liberate themselves from themselves," divesting their lands of the postcolonial generation of malefactors and incompetents. He has given up the idea of Western...
...Shortly after Solovyev and Vinogradov donned their spacesuits and depressurized an airlock adjacent to Spektr in preparation for opening the airless lab's hatch, Vinogradov's left glove began leaking air. At first the cosmonauts were unconcerned, and a ground controller even joked as Vinogradov struggled to adjust his suit. "Pull it with all your proletarian force," he instructed...
PLAYBOYS Dodi a deadbeat? Ex-girlfriend's suit says he didn't deliver; gives his species a bad name...
Clinton lawyer Bob Bennett, constrained by politics from delving into PAULA JONES' sexual history as he prepares for a possible trial in her harassment suit, intends to probe what he asserts was Jones' real motive for coming forward: money. To that end, a crucial witness could be CARRIE FERRARO, who rented Paula and Steve Jones a Glendale, Calif., house in May 1993. Ferraro told TIME that almost from the start, the couple complained of being broke. They were frequently late paying the $900 monthly rent, she says, and Paula often asked to borrow money. The chatty Paula, she claims, never...
...World War II. Why are questions about Volcker's Nestle position being raised now? Perhaps because in a recent letter to a federal judge who must decide whether or not to dismiss a multibillion-dollar class action brought by Holocaust victims against the Swiss banks, Volcker argued that their suit would have a potentially "crippling" impact on his investigation. Other members of the eminent-persons group immediately dissociated themselves from Volcker's letter, and made it clear that it was his concern, not theirs. Lawyers for the victims are questioning Volcker's business ties. Volcker had no comment...