Word: alienations
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...awards to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1979 and to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1982, at least partly because their reporters used false identities. The Sun-Times set up a saloon business and paid bribes to city officials; a Herald-Examiner reporter claimed to be an illegal alien and took a job in a garment-industry sweatshop...
...Minister Edward Seaga, no Teddy Roosevelt he, contributed troops to the Grenadian invasion force. His concern was not that Grenada was recapitulating any past disaster; on the contrary, it was creating for the islands of the English-speaking Caribbean a wholly new one. Military juntas and large armies are alien to the region, he explained. The largest army in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is 200; Grenada's was nearly 2,000. Nor does the region have a history of bloody coups or the placing of an entire population under house arrest. Jamaica and its allied democracies were...
Clearly the tangle of alien armies in Lebanon cannot hasten a solution in the Middle East, only more violence. The Lebanese must build on the dialogue (albeit stormy one) established at Geneva to quickly work toward both a settlement between warring Christians and Druse, and a removal of Israeli, Palestinian and Syrian forces from the country...
...Grenadians happily "sold" their island for "some knives and hatchets, a large quantity of glass beads and two bottles of brandy for the Chief himself." Only nine months later (presumably after the brandy ran out), the islanders began bridling under the restrictions imposed on them by an alien culture and decided they wanted their island back. In the end, a bloody confrontation erupted in which bows and arrows were smashed against French guns. Our moods have not changed much since then: we are quick to welcome those who come here, even quicker to suspect those who stay too long...
...imaginary world of video games has always been a treacherous place, full of alien star cruisers, speeding asteroids, menacing centipedes and ravenous Pac-Men. Such dangers, however, are hardly more fearsome than the real-world disasters now battering the manufacturers of the games. With the crucial Christmas season approaching, the once thriving industry is being zapped by overheated competition, an oversupply of games, relentless price-cutting, plunging profits and a new finickiness among young video fans. For the dozens of companies in the contest, the name of the game has suddenly become Survival. Admits President William Grubb of Imagic, which...