Word: visaed
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...shame that Gerard Depardieu's visa didn't expire for real...before he ever made this horrendous romantic comedy with Andie Macdowell of the ubiquitous long brown hair and the occasional talent...
...still can't relax. I developed such rigid habits in that place. But this afternoon I'm really happy. One of our group just telephoned and said Imad was granted a humanitarian visa by the U.S. We all told our embassies about him. He risked his life for us. And now he's free himself. What a marvelous piece of justice...
...Poles knew almost nothing about him. Only now is a more detailed profile emerging -- and its shape is strange and sometimes contradictory. Tyminski slipped out of Poland in 1969, apparently on a tourist visa, and eventually reached Canada, where he studied computer science. In 1975 he founded his own company, Transduction Ltd., which makes computer systems for factories and ^ power plants. Traveling to Peru in 1982, he stayed on for six years, eventually starting a cable TV company. There he met his wife Graciela and also apparently underwent a kind of spiritual transformation among the Peruvian Indians...
...week, however, details surfaced that contradicted some of Tyminski's accounts. He initially claimed that after leaving Poland, he did not return until last year. But the pro-Solidarity paper Gazeta Wyborcza cited government records that showed he visited the country seven times between 1980 and 1989 -- with the visa for each trip obtained from the Polish embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Tyminski called the reports...
...situation, which has the appearance of saying, "Oh yes, I remember you. Here's a sweatshirt and some gum. Thanks for the effort. As you can see, we're behind you all the way, sacrificing right alongside you. Oh, and don't worry. I charged it on my Visa...