Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weapon, but it's no more dangerous than gasoline," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It's flammable, but not explosive." While PCI had planned to turn the napalm into fuel for cement kilns, it's now firing a frenzy of lobbying by congressmen determined to keep that incendiary train rolling right along...
...once more. Some people said he was called Wang Weilin, was 19 years old and a student; others said not even that much could be confirmed. Some said he was a factory worker's son, others that he looked like a provincial just arrived in the capital by train. When American newsmen asked Chinese leader Jiang Zemin a year later what had happened to the symbol of Chinese freedom--caught by foreign cameramen and broadcast around the world--he replied, not very ringingly, "I think never killed...
...grandfather reactivated old international links from before the 1949 communist revolution. (Granddad had founded Tianjin's branch of the Rotary Club in the 1920s.) Yan got a Rotary scholarship and was the first high school student in China allowed to go abroad. Wearing his school uniform, he took a train to the Hong Kong border. A family friend met him, bought him clothes, a watch and a Playboy-brand belt. Seven days later, he arrived in Auckland, New Zealand. "My hosts met me at the airport," he recalls. "I really didn't have enough English. I meant...
...matter which of the above categories you fit into, what surrounds you is a very religious place. It is more than just the fact that the College was founded by Puritans to train their ministers, or that the Memorial Church bell begins to chime at 8:45 weekday mornings to call students to the (now voluntary and ecumenical) morning prayers. Most students and Faculty, whether they see themselves as devout or alienated, observant or ignorant, live a life attuned to religion...
After graduation, Gattnar plans to return to Slovakia, where he will work and train with club teams to try to qualify for the 2000 Olympics...