Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months into his tour through Galilee, Jesus (to revert to his English name) managed to take his 12 best students and hide out with them for three long days. It was the first calm escape they had managed since his success as a healer and exorcist had kept them mobbed night and day by the helpless...
Mikhailov apparently regards journalists in much the same way he views Chechens. If anyone has visited the other side in this war, he says unsmilingly as we prepare to take off from Moscow, don't mention it to Russian soldiers. You could have "serious problems...
...could prop him up in the short run. More important, she insists, is ensuring that his successor is market- and democracy-minded. And since Castro blames the embargo for worsening Cuba's moribund economy--a cover for his own socialist blunders and human-rights abuses--why not take away his alibi? Even Cuba's leading dissident, Elizardo Sanchez, agrees. "After the fall of the Soviet Union," he says, "the worst strategy to take against a closed society like Cuba is to tighten its isolation...
Softbank's rivals can take some solace in knowing that Son's mistakes have been spectacular. He wasted billions of dollars on Ziff-Davis, which he is trying to sell off piece by piece. He sold Kingston at a loss, and some of his start-ups, as start-ups are wont to do, went south. Son would say these failures are the price of admission. If you don't play...
...Berkeley, where his parents studied biochemistry at the University of California. Back in France, he refused to do his military service and dropped out of Bordeaux University to immerse himself in various leftist political and ecological movements. In 1975 he and his wife decided to move to the country, take up sheep farming and join a local peasant movement against the planned extension of an army base in southern France. Arrested for "invading" the base during a 1976 protest, Bove spent three weeks in prison but had the satisfaction of seeing the military project canceled five years later...