Word: nearest
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...nearest town - and telephone - is at Nanyuki, a 30-minute jeep drive away, on a dirt road. There, the boys experience a sort of role reversal. The local Kenyan kids - shoeless, many of them hanging out on the street corner sniffing glue - stare at the American boys' Nike high-tops and beg for money. Suddenly the students are no longer apprentice hoodlums from the slums; they're rich Americans with more than enough to eat, and bright opportunities...
...Moreover, Occidental wasn't simply handed the deal; its offer - $3.65 billion - was twice as high as that of the nearest of its 22 competitors. The acquisition certainly turned Occidental around, instantly trebling its U.S. oil reserves and helping to almost double its profits last year. Whereas it had been estimated that pumping Elk Hills oil would cost in the region of $4.50 a barrel, it actually gushed through at $1.50 a barrel...
...peaks, bizarrely early frost that threatens their potato crops and new parasites that weaken their alpacas. They relayed only a few requests. Would the summit help them get the birth certificates necessary for visas? Would it underwrite three days' horse rental to convey six of their seers to the nearest decent road? Would it be all right to bring a few ritual staves and stones to New York...
...foreigners once thought, a bushman. He is a slightly worried guy with a tan, a bald spot, a mortgage, a mower and two kids, whose Australian dream is a double-front brick bungalow on a quarter-acre lot in the suburbs less than 30 minutes' drive from the nearest beach, with two other nice, two-kid, one-PC families on either side...
NORTHERN EXPOSURE Does the U.S. have to worry about its nearest neighbor's ability to protect itself? Some recent actions of the Canadian military are cause for concern...