Word: mannerly
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...Lebanese resistance not been so effective, the 18-year Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon would have dragged on forever. My advice to Israel is to return the rest of the occupied lands to the Syrians and Palestinians now, before it finds itself doing so in a similarly "courageous" manner later on. MARK O. SOLOMON Houston...
...Warsaw she is known as Mrs. Big. It's a reference not only to Barbara Lundberg's physical stature (5 ft. 10 in.) and no-nonsense New England manner but also to an audacious operating style that has in the past 10 years made her one of Warsaw's most influential executives. As CEO of Elektrim S.A., one of Poland's biggest and oldest communist-era companies, Lundberg, 47, admits that she attracts attention. "I think people find it amusing that a woman is president," she says. In her case they also find it daunting. Late last year the conglomerate...
...treatment, said to have originated in India or ancient Egypt, involves lighting the wide end of a hollow conical candle made of waxed cloth and gently inserting the narrow tip into the ear. The heat generated by the flame purportedly creates a vacuum that sucks out all manner of nasty things, like ear mites, along with the earwax. Afterward, adventurous souls can cut open the candle and examine their ear debris...
...roots of President Clinton's missile-defense predicament: In order to meet his own 2005 deadline for deploying a system designed to defend against missiles fired by "rogue states" - and to defend himself and Vice President Gore from Republican charges that they've left America wide open to all manner of future imagined nuclear missile threats - the President has to give the go-ahead this fall to start work on the site next spring. That timetable, though, is based on a legal interpretation that the proposed work is in violation of the ABM treaty. By that reading, if the Russians...
...this day, though, Donaldson, a founder of the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and a former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, was out to present Aetna's new bedside manner. "In response to a real market need, we heartily embraced managed care," he told the crowd. "But there was a price, in terms of too many restrictions and too much process that have grown increasingly unpopular. There are those who say the pendulum has swung too far. I agree...