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This from the front page of today's New York Times:
"..Mr. Bush played to this sentiment in a major address on national defense in September 1999 by underscoring the need to counter the Chinese missile treat."
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the Chinese missile treatSounds like what we call a lolly scramble.
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Surely a treat for the Star Wars defense contractors.
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inselpeter, you made an odd post, indeed. Merci. Psst--do you reckon Pres. Bush edited that?
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"There is too much unregulated behavior in this city." -- Rudolf Giulliani
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A painted sign, forgotten on the wall of a small Swiss railway station, abstracts the German imperative and admonishes simply, "VERBOTEN"
An ongoing construction at the Bedford Street building site, just north of and below the Williamsburg Bridge: a large plain traffic sign warns "SIDEWALK CLOSED" and points a thick arrow at its neighbor, "USE SIDEWALK"
On the Massachusetts Interstate (the transposition is a matter of Yankee pride), a sign crosses three lanes and with two words. The top one gives the direction of the two left lanes, the bottom, the name of a nearby town. The sign reads "SOUTH WESTERLY".
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What of all of these charges of "alleged murder," "alleged theft," or "alleged election fraud," to name a few?
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I can sympathise with your 'verboten' comment. Sometimes the signs made to prevent something undesirable, are in themselves so ugly; one of those dogs defecating on the grass with a line through it springs to mind.
btw congrats on your newbiedom, oiter!
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From the front page of today's New York Times:
"[T]he captain of the submarine that sank a Japanese fishing trawler…last month took full responsibility today for the fatal accident but also suggested that some of his officers had set in motion the disaster.."
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