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...than standard safety equipment. As part of the deal, Boeing agreed to purchase $700 million in promissory notes convertible to stock in the airline's parent, Allegis, based in Elk Grove Village, Ill. If Boeing acquires stock, it could become the company's largest shareholder and thus help Allegis thwart hostile takeover attempts. Boeing cannot exceed a 30% share without the consent of Allegis' board...
...vice consul exit the room through the front doors to the Science Center lobby, where he will see and hear the opposition of Harvard students to the policies of his government. A speaker from the African National Congress is waiting there to engage the vice consul in debate. To thwart any plan of shielding Mr. Kent-Brown from the free speech of others by spiriting him out the back doors, we are moving down to block these doors peacefully and non-violently. We have no intention of interfering with Mr. Kent-Brown's freedom of speech or movement...
Born in Cicero, Ill., of Lithuanian heritage, Marcinkus has been a member of Pope John Paul II's entourage, and for 17 years served as a papal advance man. In 1970 Marcinkus used his 6-ft. 4-in. frame to thwart a knife attack on Pope Paul VI in Manila. The Archbishop was once thought to be on the Vatican fast track, but after the Ambrosiano affair his rapid career advancement came to a stop. He was not named a Cardinal as anticipated and did not rise to become President of Vatican City, another post that he was expected...
...laibon used a Dik-dik, that small lovely antelope, to thwart someone's plans. It works thus: he places charms upon the animal and then releases it in the direction of the person who is the target of the spell. For help with childbirth, he drapes the skin of an eland on the woman -- the eland being much like the cow, which possesses magic powers. In order to bring rain, the laibon places a dead frog on the ground, belly up, with a charm upon it. Within 24 hours, before the frog decays, the rain will fall...
...first order of creation, and they are vividly marked with God's eccentric genius of design: life poured into pure forms, life unmitigated by complexities of consciousness, language, ethics, treachery, revulsion, reason, religion, premeditation or free will. A wild animal does not contradict its own nature, does not thwart itself, as man endlessly does. A wild animal never plays for the other side. The wild animals are a holiday from deliberation. They are sheer life. To behold a bright being that lives without thought is, to the complex, cross-grained human mind, profoundly liberating. And even if they...