Word: tankful
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...says Lauren Slaughter, the whimsical heroine of the first novella, "Dr. Slaughter". It doesn't exactly have the ring to it that "Call me Ishmael" does; but our these lines Theroux hangs his tale. Lauren has recently arrived in London from the States to work for a global think tank. After a few months at the institute, she receives a videotape from some unknown sender designed to recruit young women for an escort service. Bored at her research post and eager for some excitement, she decides to give the Jamine Agency...
Only minutes after the last Israeli tank had pulled back from the Awali River bridge on Feb. 16, the Lebanese Army began to move into Sidon. Car horns blared, and Lebanese flags appeared everywhere. The festivities were interrupted when two Israeli Kfir fighters dived low over the city and released clouds of leaflets promising swift retaliation in the event of hostile action against Israel's withdrawing forces. But about the only violence that day occurred when armed men dragged a pajama-clad man, suspected of collaborating with the Israelis, from his house, bundled him into a car trunk and drove...
Union Carbide, which disclosed late last month that leaks at its Institute, W. Va., plant had resulted in a revision of procedures there, has conceded that some of the information coming out of India is correct. The company has acknowledged that a backup storage tank that was supposed to be empty at the time of the accident had in fact been partly filled. But company officials declined to comment in detail on other findings until they could study the results of their investigation...
...chiefs, directors of public safety and sheriffs among its 700 regular members. Ten years ago, there was only one black chief in a large city, Hubert Williams, police director of Newark, N.J. Last week Williams was named the new president of the Police Foundation, the influential law-enforcement think tank in Washington...
...second was written by Union Carbide inspectors and released by Congressman Henry Waxman. It warned that a "runaway reaction" at a tank containing methyl isocyanate could lead to a "catastrophic failure" of the tank. A Union Carbide spokesman said the company took corrective action, but did not inform the Indian plant because it used a different cooling system...