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...tuners or pencil salesmen--and thought maybe they were stereotypes for good reason. Blind people certainly shouldn't be out here, wandering through an ever changing ice field, measuring the distance over a 1,000-ft.-deep crevasse with climbing poles and then leaping, literally, over and into the unknown...
...FASCINATING FRUIT In 1880 bananas were unknown in the U.S.; by 1910 they were common. Fruit firms set up plantations in Central and South America; the Army propped up puppet leaders to protect trade--hence the term "banana republic...
...tuners or pencil salesmen?and thought maybe they were stereotypes for good reason. Blind people certainly shouldn't be out here, wandering through an ever changing ice field, measuring the distance over a 1,000-ft.-deep crevasse with climbing poles and then leaping, literally, over and into the unknown...
...causes may be murky, but it is clear that the man accused of the crime, 37-year-old Mamoru Takuma, has serious problems. He dropped out of high school in 1980, was discharged from the Air Force after one year for unknown reasons, and worked as a bus driver. In 1998 he was employed as a school janitor. A year later he was arrested on suspicion of drugging four teachers who were hospitalized after consuming tea he had brewed while working at an Osaka elementary school. Takuma was fired from his job, but he wasn't prosecuted: a judge ruled...
...with Labour in the high 40s, the Tories at around 30% and the Liberal Democrats around 17%. (The results of the vote in '97 were: Labour 44%, Conservatives 31% and Liberal Democrats 17%). New Labour, meanwhile, is no longer new and doesn't offer the piquancy of the unknown. Labour has been in power for four years, it has a mixed record, and is not expected to provide many surprises when it takes office, as appears inevitable, on June 8. The only excitement seems to be in predictions that the Tories, in a reversal of 1992, will do much worse...