Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...along the Charles River, looking for the site of MIT's third annual luau. I knew I was getting close when I saw a car parked on the curb with a large bumper sticker that said, "Aloha spirit. Don't leave home without it." I quickly made my way toward the warm glow emanating from Walker Memorial Hall where I was greeted with the brimming smiles of friends from back home, tropical flowers, and beautiful Hawaiian music...
...travel, e-mail and global markets, Europe is at America's doorstep. Second, for America's own economic protection. While America turns a blind eye, Europe is gathering strength. Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Helmut Kohl and the other European leaders are not waiting for America's balance to tip toward Europe but are shaping their own future. And 11 of the 15 European Union countries have qualified to participate in the new common currency of the European Union, the Euro, which will become the currency of Europe next...
...Since there were no Yiddish publishing houses in Montreal, everyone who attended would contribute $10, a large sum in those days, toward the purchase of the [visiting writer's] book so it could be privately published," Wisse recalls. "It was a wonderful house to grow up in, excellent preparation for a career in Yiddish studies, though at the time, the last thing I wanted, of course, was to study Yiddish literature...
...learn from death, it is that no one should ever have to feel as if he or she is going through life or through mourning alone. Perhaps we can ease the pain of those who are mourning if we let these tragedies remind us of our responsibility toward our peers and our friends...
...visits Goree Island, the slave-trade embarkation point, to make the closing speech of his trip. Don't expect an apology for slavery: Asked about the much-hyped issue earlier this week, the President said, "Most of my African-American friends and advisers... think we need to be looking toward the future...