Word: gate
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...last Israeli out of Lebanon didn't turn off the lights, but he did lock the gate. He also symbolically opened a dangerous new chapter of Israel's troubled relations with its neighbors. The last Israelis departed before dawn Wednesday, as the collapse of their Lebanese Christian proxy army forced Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speed up the withdrawal plan. Even more worrying to the Israeli leader than the spectacle of his troops retreating under fire and Hezbollah guerrillas dancing triumphantly atop tanks abandoned by his Lebanese allies is the fact that the vacuum left by Israel has been filled...
...campaign to attract more investment to the city. The factory gets more than 600 visitors a day. It is so important to the city's leaders that on the first working day after the U.S. bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi showed up at the gate. "He wanted to make sure we continued production," says GM's Dougherty. The American staff members were jumpy after a weekend that had seen the U.S. embassy trashed in Beijing and Americans targeted for abuse around the country. "Xu said he didn't like what happened in Belgrade, but that...
Stumbling out of the Gate...
...DOOMSDAY PREDICTION] The Heaven's Gate cult claims the earth will be destroyed, and they must flee on a spacecraft trailing Comet Hale-Bopp...
Twenty horses will bolt from the gate tomorrow with the panic of depositors at a Depression-era bank run, and the bumping and jostling that's sure to ensue could knock any of the favored contenders out of the money and produce a winner like last year's 30-1 Charismatic. So watch it for the drama--or if you're short on cash, hop the Blue Line to Suffolk Downs, where there's no shortage of opinions. But remember, soap operas don't often have predictable endings...