Word: wishfully
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They may get their wish. Gyanendra's indifferent attitude toward the threats to his rule--H.M. KING GYANENDRA DOES NOT SEEK CHEAP POPULARITY, proclaims a billboard near the U.S. embassy--has fueled public anger even more. The King finally tried to mollify the masses last Friday, when he pledged to return power to the people and asked the political parties to nominate a Prime Minister. But the parties dismissed the King's offer and intensified their demand that he go. Even the King's associates believe his days are numbered. "He felt he had to take over, or we would...
...family could be criminally prosecuted for possession of the files they inherited, Persichini replied, "At this point, we haven't gone down that route." The Anderson family is relishing the tug-of-war with the powerful agency. "It almost seems like the good old days," Kevin Anderson says. "I wish Dad were around to enjoy...
...amazed to read that Gorbachev's government pension is only 40,000 rubles a month, about $1,400. I wish U.S. Presidents and politicians received similarly meager pensions...
...warming [April 3] was thoroughly terrifying, for which I thank you. For too long has this issue been casually dismissed as a problem to be dealt with in the future. As a young person, I'm well aware that it is my generation to which many corporations and politicians wish to relegate this burden, and my generation will suffer the consequences of today's recklessness. Hannah Jewell San Rafael, California...
...Rogers Lake, a natural twelve-mile-long runway. Air Force and North American officials crowded anxiously around loudspeakers relaying Crossfield's radio messages. At 14,000 ft., Scott Crossfield, a World War II Navy pilot and a test pilot for a decade, remarked laconically: "I wish I could do a roll on my way in." (Later he explained that he had restrained himself because "if I'd goofed, it would have looked kind of sour.") Testing his controls with a wide, lazy-S turn, Crossfield, following procedure, jettisoned the X-15's ventral tailfin, which would have interfered with extending...