Word: sharing
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...women who came of age in the Great Depression and then World War II, it was a way of saying thank you to the people who had given me the life I have today. I hoped members of that generation would read the stories and perhaps share their own with members of their family...
Others have used the books to open a new dialogue with parents or older friends from that time. In Montana, Dennis Tilton of the Shooting Star ranch south of Livingston approached me in a sporting-goods store to share his story. The year before, his father had been in failing health and almost blind. Tilton drove to town, bought The Greatest Generation and returned to his father's side. "I read it aloud to him every day between Christmas and New Year's," Tilton told me. "It was the most meaningful father-son time we'd ever had. We kept...
...Besides pressing for Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese territories (including some that Israel regards as part of Syria), Hezbollah is nominally committed to pursue and support a wider 'jihad' against Israel. But its role in liberating south Lebanon has also positioned it to claim an important share of political power in Beirut...
...many as its nearest competitor, American. Like any merger, it's an economy of scale - more northeastern flights feeding seamlessly into those lucrative long-distance flights means more one-stop United shopping for flyers, which means more money. Which is why United was willing to pay $60 a share - in cash, not stock - for an airline lucky to be at $25, a generous premium even in the mega-merger game. The merger could also be a lucky break for USAirways? frequent flyers, says TIME Washington correspondent Sally Donnelly. "United generally ranks near the top in customer service surveys, and USAirways...
...course, you may enjoy the book more if you share Buckley's political faith (an elegantly consistent conservatism extending back to the origins of the Cold War), but it is not necessary that you do so. It will also help if you share Buckley's delight in the English language. He runs words through his fingers like doubloons. He likes to superimpose a trelliswork of formulations from the Greek or Latin (grids of the apodictic, the epistemological, the asymptotic) upon the subject at hand. Lacking the Latinate, he goes to the Latin - "pari passu," "tu quoque." Either you enjoy these...