Word: threads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sameness of the form is made even more maddening by Cohen's failure to provide any narrative thread. How did he get from city to city? How did he react to meeting the various individuals? Did he change over the course of the journey...
Public support is vital for Rabin. In the wake of Aryeh Deri's forced resignation from the cabinet over financial misdeeds, Shas (Deri's party) participation in the Labor-led coalition is hanging by a thread. Shas is the only "religious" party in the coalition and joined it amid cries of betrayal from the other conservative, religious parties. Although it is a small party with only a few votes in the Knesset, its absence from the coalition would mean that Rabin would be forced to rely on Arab party votes to sustain his majority. If Rabin and the Labor party...
Analysts connect the snarl of problems to a single thread: the lack of any patriotic spirit. Says Angel Saldomando of cries, a private think tank in Managua: "There is no political class with a national consciousness, no social base from which to resolve the problems." That leaves Chamorro, out of touch and over her head, fumbling to start a national dialogue. Late last week she seemed to be signaling new resolve as reports circulated that the ex- Sandinista army intelligence chief, now director of army information, was about to be dismissed...
...most promising of the new therapies, first available in Italy, is a product called Actisite. It looks something like dental floss but actually consists of an organic fiber coated with the antibiotic tetracycline. Packed deep in the gums, the medicinal thread remains in place for seven to 10 days. Thanks to a time-release formula, the antibiotic slowly diffuses through the infected area, attacking the gum-destroying germs. According to one study, Actisite delivers 300 times as much tetracycline to the crevice where the thread is placed as a gram's worth of pills would...
...spirit. Can you remove what makes a person gay and maintain that unique sensibility that has played a disproportionate role in the world's art and history? I don't think so. As the character of David Gold points out, "Every human being is a tapestry. You pull one thread, one undesirable color, and the art unravels. You end up staring at the walls...