Word: visitor
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...talks. "They're both very courtly, exceedingly polite and soft-spoken." During Abbas' tenure as Palestinian Prime Minister in 2003, Sharon invited him to Jerusalem and stood with him and George W. Bush at a peace summit in Aqaba, Jordan. Two weeks ago, Sharon privately told a U.S. visitor that he liked Abbas, though he added that he hadn't yet seen any attempt by the new Palestinian chief to rein in the terrorist groups. Sharon's bottom line for a return to peace talks is for Abbas to confront the Islamists of Hamas and the gunmen of the Aqsa...
...Altai news agency Bankfax, "A gentlemen from Moscow came [in October] to offer us big rewards should we do their bidding. When I turned him down, he said: 'You either share the bulldozer's driver seat with us or the bulldozer rolls over you.'" Savinkov says his next visitor was an officer from the FSB, Russia's domestic security service, who warned that the agency would have problems should Savinkov fail to cooperate. That's when Savinkov and his colleague Vladimir Ovchinnikov, editor-in-chief of Svobodnyi Kurs, a Barnaul-based weekly, drafted the protest letter. "It's not about...
...University should be more willing to accommodate couples in academia, she says. “If the husband is an academic in a different field,” Nicoara recommends, “then the University should try to provide position in that field or at least grant visitor status until they can find something in the area...
...Utzon in exile, walking through a snowy forest in Denmark; to the right is his last completed Opera House model, from 1966 - "so we have the two sides of his mind," the curator explains. "The free, poetic side, and also the very practical, analytical side." Once inside, the visitor is thrust before the architect's very eyes. As a young graduate from Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Arts, Utzon zoomed his home-movie lens on ancient world monuments, from the Mayan temples of Yucatan, to Chinese pagodas and Iranian mosques. Watching such footage in the show...
...Worthington manage to concoct a series of devilish plans to rid themselves of the interloper with the help of Mr. Willey’s best friend Mr. George Pidgen (Calum Docherty ’07).It becomes clear that they will have a hard time ridding themselves of the visitor as more and more people become involved as the night wears on, and thus Mr.Willy, Mrs. Worthington and Mr. Pidgen spend all night spinning a wildly elaborate and entirely humorous web of lies to keep the original secret from leaking...