Word: furthering
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The Hol Chan reserve -- the first of its kind in Central America -- includes beds of sea grass, which prevent silt from settling on the reef, and seven mangrove cays that serve as nursery areas for many of the species living there. "Reef, mangroves, sea grass -- they're all linked," Gibson...
Mesmerized by the prospect of a business boom that could produce thousands of new white-collar and service jobs, Milwaukee's civic leaders never gave much thought to the possibility of civil unrest. So it came as a shock when alderman Michael McGee proclaimed earlier this month that he was...
Christianity's future is anything but secure in Israel and the occupied areas, despite the faith's strong roots there and the government's official commitment to religious freedom. Author Amos Elon has written that Jerusalem may soon become a mere "museum" for visitors, bereft of Christianity as a "living...
The words caused consternation in Warsaw, particularly within the Solidarity government Walesa helped create. "He seems prepared to put everything we have achieved this year at risk to further his personal ambitions," said a Cabinet member. Echoed Dariusz Fikus, editor in chief of the government daily Rzeczpospolita: "Preservation of the...
While Mazowiecki has been a thoughtful and precise leader, Walesa frequently gives the impression of rumpled sartorial and intellectual disorder. Receiving a group of TIME editors two weeks ago in Gdansk in slippers and checked shirt, he made a passionate appeal, laced with colorful metaphors, for Western aid. But when...