Word: turned
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What's remarkable is how many people, upon closer examination, turn out to have gone much further, fabricating stories to include wars they did not fight, degrees they did not acquire, events that did not happen, even defining moments they did not have. Last Thursday the body of former U.S. Ambassador M. Larry Lawrence was dug up from Arlington National Cemetery after no one could come up with proof that he had actually been in the merchant marine. Lawrence had given himself a war record so moving that his voice cracked when he told about being thrown into...
...came in Korea when a wave of bankruptcies by conglomerates, or chaebol, crashed down on the country's banks, flooding them with write-offs for bad loans. Defaults of a comparable magnitude in Japan's $4.2 trillion economy, which is nearly 10 times the size of Korea's, could turn the so-called Asian Contagion into a worldwide pandemic that could even threaten the health of the soundest peacetime expansion in U.S. history...
...Japan for at least $24 billion, but a further deterioration of the Korean won--which has lost a staggering 50% of its value against the U.S. dollar this year--would make it harder for Japanese products to compete with Korean exports, from cars to steel to electronics. That in turn would plunge Japan deeper into the recession that now looms as a strong possibility for next year...
...there to turn him in? That's what the prosecution hoped. But she let them down, claiming what she wrote in the book ? that Ilich had confessed the 1975 murder of two French agents to her ? was fiction...
Brent Sadler's report on Iraqi commandos training outside Baghdad told of frenzied recruits disemboweling a dog and pulling apart live rabbits. Such acts of cruelty and torture serve only to dehumanize these soldiers, not turn them into gallant men worthy of a military uniform. I served in Vietnam and saw the best of soldiers, both American and Viet Cong. There were honorable men there, not rabble. How can Iraq countenance such barbarism? RICHARD PAUL CLEMENCEAU New York City...