authority.40021
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Hot on the heels of the great American debate on homosexual awareness among five-year-olds comes the news that a forthcoming Jackanory will deal with Aids. [/p] [p]
Heavens knows where it will end.
We may soon see a nursery ABC frieze, which goes: A is for Aids, B is for Bondage, C is for Condom, D is for Deviancy, E is for Equality, F is for Feminism, G is for Gender Stereotyping, 
H is for Haringey, I is for Income Support, J is for Joyriding, K is for karma, L is for Liberalism, M is for Ms., N is for New Age, O is for Outing, P is for Positive Discrimination, Q is for Questioning <head>Authority//NNP</head> , R is for Radical, S is for Single Parent, T is for Therapy, U is for Underprivileged, V is for Virtual Reality, W is for Wimmin, X is for Malcolm, Y is for Yoof and Z is for Zen. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [note]
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blind.40013
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And the scene of the burning of the books, seen on film by her many times, was as vivid as an actual memory: Hitler's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts, swastikas on their arms, heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre, dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book, volume after volume: Heine, Schiller, Brecht, Thomas Mann, Einstein, Freud, Marx:
history, poetry, novels, science, the works of philosophers, psychologists &mdash; men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books; brutes living in utter ignorance, leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields, inspired only by resentment, vile prejudice, and <head>blind//JJ</head>hatred of what they could not understand, and, it was true, victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn &mdash; and finding them.
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blind.40119
<context>
There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances: (1) Epistemic appearances are subjective, whereas perspectival appearances are objective; (2) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be &phgr; to Y but Y does not know it, whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it; 
(3) X can appear to be &phgr; to Y only if Y possesses the concept &phgr;: nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances; (4) Epistemic appearances are related to their [pb] objects by being true or false of them, whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically.
All these differences require elucidation. [/p] [p]
(1) Reid remarks that &bquo;a man born <head>blind//JJ</head> , if he were instructed in mathematics, would be able to determine the visible figure of a body, when its real figure, distance, and position, are given.&equo;
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channel.40106
<context>
IOMEGA LAUNCHES ADDITIONS TO FLOPTICAL PRODUCTS [/head] [p] 
Removable mass storage manufacturer Iomega Corp has launched three new additions to its floptical drive family: the first is a 21Mb parallel port floptical drive for customers that want to use parallel ports to connect their boxes to laptop, notebook and desktop personal computers; data transfer is 1.6Mbits per second and the drive costs &pound;530; 
the other two are 21Mb SCSI internal and external floptical drives for personal computers; these are aimed at users with AT, EISA and Micro <head>Channel//NNP</head>systems and both work with standard SCSI adaptors, such as Future Domain Inc's TMC 850F and Adaptec Inc's 1522FS; data transfer is again 1.6Mbits per second; the internal drive costs &pound;360 and the external drive &pound;400. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [head]
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church.40106
<context>
When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded, they expected to hear it expounded fully, and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige, not merely comparing the German text for the day &mdash; a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet &mdash; 
with the original Hebrew, and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived, suffered, and prophesied, a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East &mdash; and the West, but he, the Pastor, was perfectly willing to apply the prophet's message to the present day &mdash; and to present-day socialist Germany, at that.
With a little of the guilty excitement of enjoying a forbidden pleasure, Erika began to listen attentively. [/p] [p]
&bquo;Of course,&equo; the Pastor said, &bquo;of course, the State may properly demand our obedience in many matters: obeying its laws &mdash; if the laws are just; making us pay taxes &mdash; if the taxes are properly spent; supporting its policies &mdash; if the policies are wise.
So far the <head>Church//NNP</head> is at one with the State.
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circuit.40027
<context>
The UK Department of Trade &amp; Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday, and the company has now begun operating: Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp, and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax, with a sign-on fee of &pound;1,000 for companies, &pound;50 for residential subscribers, the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out; 
Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity, he could reach annual turnover of &pound;10m and make a substantial profit; he plans a &pound;2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre, near the Tower of London. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [head]
APPLE OPENS COMPANY STORE TO THE PUBLIC [/head] [p]
Apple Computer Inc is opening its Company Store, previously accessible only to Apple employees, to the public, but only for buying Appl e-logoed merchandise, computer accessories and software &mdash; not for buying Macintoshes or peripherals. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [head] 
POOR DEMAND DELAYS NEC <head>CIRCUIT//NNP</head>BOARD PRODUCTION [/head] [p]
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day.40193
<context>
PET &bquo;HOTEL HATES&equo; (THE FREQUENT ONES) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug, down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only 
* room service that brings each course separately throughout [hi]Dallas [/hi] * radiators that haven't been on for years * radiators that won't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but don't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both [/caption] [p]
The venue staff should be able to demonstrate all their equipment and facilities, and understand your technical requests.
Watch out for the &bquo;Oh the electrician will be here on the <head>day//NN</head> &mdash; I'm sure&equo; syndrome.
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day.40250
<context>
Final: Brazil bt Holland 15-12, 15-8, 15-5. [/p] [p]
MEDAL TABLE GldSlvBze Ttl CIS 45 38 29 112 United States 37 34 37 108 Germany 33 21 28 82 China 16 22 16 54 Cuba 14 6 11 31 Spain 13 7 2 22 South Korea 12 5 12 29 Hungary 11 2 7 30 France 8 6 15 29 Australia 7 9 11 27 Italy 6 5 8 19 Canada 6 5 7 18 GT BRITAIN 5 3 12 20 
Romania 4 6 8 18 Czech'kia 4 2 1 7 North Korea 4 0 5 9 Japan 3 8 11 22 Bulgaria 3 7 6 16 Poland 3 6 10 19 Holland 2 6 7 15 Kenya 2 4 2 8 Norway 2 4 1 7 Turkey 2 2 2 6 Indonesia 2 2 1 5 Brazil 2 1 0 3 Greece 2 0 0 2 Sweden 1 7 4 12 New Zealand 1 4 5 10 [/p] [/div2] [/div1] [div1] [head]
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN [/head] [head]
MIKE LANGLEY [/head] [p]
ADIOS, Barcelona &mdash; you old frying pan!
Goodbye to your sweaty nights, broiling <head>days//NNS</head> , gassy ale and loudspeakers never turned down. [/p] [p]
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facility.40154
<context>
Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd, London has expanded the retail banking elements of its flagship wholesale banking and treasury product, Equation, and released it as a separate but fully integrated module, Retail Advantage: like Equation, Retail Advantage is a client-server-based package, but has enhanced <head>facilities//NNS</head> for producing customer profitability reports, on-screen or in report form, for quality management purposes; 
it incorporates a real-time automatic teller machine gateway to provide on-line validation and updates of such transactions as cash withdrawals, and cheque book requests; it includes an updated version of Kapiti's front-end office automation &bquo;cashier system&equo;, which undertakes point of service validation, and includes a transaction definition toolkit for up-dating such items as commission or exchange rates; 
it has a fund management capability, which can map onto clearing rules worldwide; and it has multi-lingual capabilities, such as being able to generate multi-lingual customer reports; the company gave no prices for it. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [head]
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green.40387
<context>
Hollywood sends back its version of Irish folklore and legend and we buy it with added Technicolor and schmaltz.
put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick's Day along with forty shades of <head>green//JJ</head>paperweights, the lacquered shillelaghs, and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness; 
skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes, mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls, pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores, strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day's work or hit each other a clout. [/p] [p]
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material.40270
<context>
The sense conveyed here of transition, of one age giving way to another, of an approaching end, a decadence, an [hi]Untergang [/hi] &mdash; veering violently in its emotional response between nonchalance and terrible fear &mdash; is in some ways more disturbing than the resolutely futuristic or science fiction settings of the very talented Stefano Benni, 
who has been compared, not without reason, to Vonnegut (Tani 1986: 134&ndash;8), or the sub-human dystopia created by the Sienese poet Attilio Lolini in his only novel to date, [hi]Morte sospesa (Suspended death [/hi] 1987), in which a man stumbles through the aftermath of what [sic] Loloni [/sic] describes as &bquo; an ordinary apocalypse&equo;, trying to confess to a horrible and long-forgotten crime of which no one will believe him guilty. [/p] [p]
In discussions of the recent Italian novel, however, most attention has been focused on its treatment not of the future, but of the past.
There has been in the 1980s in Italy, as elsewhere, a revival of historical narrative in which, however, the reader is not allowed to take the authenticity and authority of the historical <head>material//NN</head> for granted.
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natural.40280
<context>
Beyond the information concerning her birth and the move to Brackley, the next thing known about the poet pertains to her education.
Freemantle writes: [quote] [p]
&lsqb;Philip Leapor&rsqb; informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way, as soon as she was capable of it; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably, which, as he remembers, was at about ten or eleven Years old, She would often be scribbling, and sometimes in Rhyme; which her Mother was at first pleas'd with: 
But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up, when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment, she endeavour'd to break her of it; and that he likewise, having no Taste for Poetry, and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her, join'd in the same Design: But finding it impossible to alter her <head>natural//JJ</head>Inclination, he had of late desisted, and left her more at Liberty [bibl]
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nature.40041
<context>
Robotic supervisory control; Thin film fabrication; Semiconductor heterojunctions and superlattices; Flat panel display addressing and pixel modelling; Glow discharge processes; Chemistry of II&ndash;VI phosphors; Sensors, biomedical telemetry; Real-time digital signal processing; Sonar signal processing; Bandwidth compression of speech and video; High-speed implementation of computer logic/modelling/transmission line effects; Graphics design for computer simulation of printed circuit board design and facsimile reception; Heart rate variability; 
Blood pressure monitoring; Cardio-vascular modelling; Speech recognition and synthesis; Artificial hearing devices; Data communications; Electric vehicle drives; Power electronics; ASIC/PAL design; Transputer applications; Radio-frequency devices and systems; Ventricular modelling; Adaptive filters; Fetal and neonatal monitoring; Garment and textile automation and control; Image processing; Control systems; Adoptive systems; Flight control systems; Expert systems applications; Electromagnetic wave propagation studies. [pb] [/p] [/div2] [div2] [head]
Environmental Studies [/head] [p]
Head of Department: Professor R W G Carter (CE) [/p] [p]
[hi]Environmental Science: [/hi] Aspects of <head>nature//NN</head> conservation; Hydrology, especially of peat-covered catchments; Coastal geomorphology and sedimentology including beaches and dunes; Sea-level changes and coastal evolution; Ecology and public impact; Structural geology; Glacial sedimentology; Soil mineralogy and weathering; Aspects of meteorology and geomorphology; Tertiary igneous rocks; Geochemistry; Vegetation and land-use surveying; Remote sensing and geographical information systems. [/p] [p]
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nature.30027
<context>
``I might point out that your inability to report to my office this morning when you were instructed to do so has not ah limited my knowledge of your activities as you may have hoped''.
He took up a white sheet of paper, dark with single-spaced data. 
A car pulled into the driveway outside the window.
Gun knew it was Car 12, the wagon, returned from delivering Ingleside's drunk-and-disorderlies to the City Jail.
But for some fool reason he could n't remember which men he 'd put on the transfer detail.
He stared at the report in Killpath's hand, sure it was written by Accacia -- just as sure as if he 'd submitted it in his scrawled longhand.
He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, 
``Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment 
four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social <head>nature//NN</head> and six'' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses ``-- failed to co-op erate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordere What have you to say to that, Sergeant''?
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sense.40049
<context>
Looking at it and the bleak shore of Flotta beyond, the memories came flooding back: pink gins before Sunday lunch at twopence a throw; dressing up as Tartars and Eskimos and Bedouins for Tribal parties; cinema shows where the reels were laced up in the wrong order; darts competitions in the wardroom flat; early winter morning torpedo firings in the Flow, very dark and cold; walks to Longhope for fresh eggs, or fishing for sea-trout in the bay; 
piping the admiral as we passed the headquarters ship and eased our way down to Switha Gate bound for distant waters, the captain on the compass platform with cap at an angle, elbows on hips and gloved hands turned upwards, Spider beside him puffing smoke through a black holder and advising courses to steer; and then, as the ship adjusted herself to the roll and rhythm of the sea, a last flashing message from the signal station at Hoxa Head (now vandalized and abandoned), as it would be the first on our return, days or weeks later.
Those years had an intensity, a singularity and a <head>sense//NN</head> of joy about them that I have not known before or since. [/p] [p]
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solemn.40087
<context>
and Ruth says I commit myself to him, he will now be my god, and therefore your people will be my people, your home will be my home, your destiny will be my destiny [pause] the way is clear, she makes that greatest decision of her life, a decision that will affect the whole of her life [pause] but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now, 
we, we, we are always confronted, day after day we are confronted to make decisions, some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them, and if things alter they will change our minds, not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind, men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well, I won't go through with that I'll change my mind before its too late, but here Ruth she is not just making a decision, she is making a total commitment, 
a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life, to promised to be loyal to [trunc] de [/trunc] to Naomi and her deceased husband, she promises loyalty to Naomi's race and the people of god, but above all she acknowledge's Naomi's god and her willingness to follow him to the end, 
you know this, how she finishes of this commitment [pause] where you die I will die its to the end [pause] its to the end of my life, I will not walk out of it and even after you've gone mother in law, even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision, this decision I am making today where you die I will die, there I will be buried, and here she sorts of puts this <head>solemn//JJ</head> vow to this commitment, thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me.
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carry.155
<context>
But for some fool reason he couldn't remember which men he 'd put  on the transfer detail.
He stared at the report in Killpath's hand,  sure  it was written  by Accacia -- just as sure as if he 'd submitted it in his scrawled longhand.
He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, 
&quot; Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from <head sats="carry_on.155:0">carrying//VBG</head> <sat id="carry_on.155:0">on</sat> his proper assignment 
four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six &quot; -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses &quot; -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordere
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develop.077
<context>
She could not resist the opportunity &quot; of  showing her superiority in argument over a man &quot; which she had remarked  as one of the &quot; feminine follies &quot; of Sara Sullam; ; and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara  had indicated her own unwillingness &quot;  to think of men as the privileged &quot; and &quot; women as submissive and yielding &quot;, felt obliged  to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception  -- 
he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope  they would ever agree on anything.
But that did not prevent him from  writing more long letters, or from  coming  to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.
1880s: &quot; little women &quot; &quot; we 've got Father and Mother and each other &quot; said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women; ; and, &quot; I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world &quot;, burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight; ; and the Szold family, as it <head>developed//VBN</head>, bore a striking resemblance to the Marches.
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develop.016
<context>
With scarcely a mumble of excuse, I fled.
I fled, however, not from what  might have been the natural fear of  being unable  to disguise from you that the things about my brideg room -- in the sense  you meant the word &quot; things &quot; -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me  as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon  finding  out for myself 
(despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of  making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood) because I was resolved , as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but  to seize Life by the throat.
I had <head>developed//VBN</head> too foolproof a facade to be afraid of self-betrayal.
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drift.032
<context>
They have to guide the new voters in the exercise of the franchise; to guide them quietly, and without saying what they are doing, but still to guide them. &amp; hellip They settle the conversation of mankind. &amp; hellip The common ordinary mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall attend to; 
it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which <head>drift//VB</head> down to it, and are brought before it &amp; hellip And in settling what these questions shall be, statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with, or is antagonistic to, the whole interest of the State, they will have done the greatest harm they can do.
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keep.005
<context>
Yet I adored this man, Letch Feeley, why, I can not say .
With faint heart and a brave smile, I endured his long absences from Chateau Belletch, his coldness, his indifference, his slights and his abuse.
The times I can recall when I was publicly humiliated by him -- lovely dinner parties in our Trianon Suite where the collation was postponed and postponed and postponed, only to be served dry and overcooked at a table where the host's chair was vacant; ; 
a &quot; splash party &quot; at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of <head sats="keep_away.005:0">keeping//VBG</head> Letch <sat id="keep_away.005:0">away</sat> from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour; ; a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn 's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown &quot; starlet &quot;, leaving me &quot; high and dry &quot; to get home as best I could.
</context>

leave.094
<context>
Yet I adored this man, Letch Feeley, why, I can not say .
With faint heart and a brave smile, I endured his long absences from Chateau Belletch, his coldness, his indifference, his slights and his abuse.
The times I can recall when I was publicly humiliated by him -- lovely dinner parties in our Trianon Suite where the collation was postponed and postponed and postponed, only to be served dry and overcooked at a table where the host's chair was vacant; ; 
a &quot; splash party &quot; at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour; ; a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn 's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown &quot; starlet &quot;, <head>leaving//VBG</head> me &quot; high and dry &quot; to get home as best I could.
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play.075
<context>
He had taken her all right.
Wednesday nights after youth fellowship.
Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling 
(unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to <head>play//VB</head> when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.
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turn.002
<context>
Just as he knew that she had stopped  loving him.
The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that  are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.
For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- 
running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then <head>turning//VBG</head> south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.
</context>

use.095
<context>
He had taken her all right.
Wednesday nights after youth fellowship.
Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling 
(unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you <head>used//VBN</head> to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.
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oblique.40025
<context>
Outlining the aid package at a press conference on July 17, Major said that it offered the Soviet Union: (i) special association with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank &lsqb;see p. 38314&rsqb;; 
(ii) increased co-operation with international bodies including the IMF, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); 
(iii) increased technical assistance; (iv) promotion of Soviet trade, particularly with eastern Europe; (v) follow-up reports by the chairs of G-7 summits in 1991 and 1992 (Major and Kohl respectively); and (vi) follow-up visits to the Soviet Union by G-7 Finance Ministers. [/p] [p]
Responding to the offer at a joint press conference with Major on July 17, Gorbachev said that&quot; the ice has started moving&quot; and, in an <head>oblique//JJ</head> reference to plans for more regular meetings between Soviet and G-7 officials, claimed that&quot; this is now a seven plus one&quot;. [/p] [p]
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drive.018
<context>
You could wish that.
Or you could wish  your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night  .
So you sit in the car and listen to the air run out and listen to the rain and see the mud in front of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator pumps, 
waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old maid too, if you happen to <head>drive//VB</head> a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help.
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