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  • NADIA AND SAEED had crossed over on the morning of a Saturday and by Monday morning when the housekeeper came to work the house was already quite full, home perhaps to fifty squatters, from infants to the elderly, hailing from as far west as Guatemala and as far east as Indonesia.†   (source)
  • When panels on international health gather, whether in Switzerland, Indonesia, or Boston, they occupy one place and atmosphere.†   (source)
  • But Fezzik was a Turkish boy, and people claim the fruit bat from Indonesia is the biggest in the world; try telling that to a Turk sometime.†   (source)
  • Just weeks before I was to leave Northampton, Nora learned that she had to return to Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Between 1973 and 1978, for example, Indonesia vastly increased school attendance.†   (source)
  • After disabling the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces thrust southward toward Australia, overrunning Wake Island, Malaya, Singapore, the Philippines, and what is now Indonesia.†   (source)
  • He ran his hand over a black cassowary carving he'd imported from Indonesia.†   (source)
  • The Japanese are buying, the British, French Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Everywhere I went--Haiti, Indonesia, China, Sierra Leone, Kosovo--I saw in the eyes of thousands the same fire for freedom I had first seen in my father's eyes.†   (source)
  • I remember a corporal who in his radio code book kept illicit slides of disrobed maidens, a sheaf of which he had salvaged from a bombed-out colonial mansion in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Just about every economist would argue that China should stop artificially cheapening its currency, but getting it to do so would not dramatically increase low-skill manufacturing employment in the U.S. Most analyses show that in response to a rising yuan, American manufacturing companies would more likely shift production to other low-wage countries—like Indonesia, Bangladesh, or Mexico—than to U.S. factories.†   (source)
  • —Jakarta, Indonesia, sir.†   (source)
  • The distribution got jugged in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • He talked of farm areas out of production for an indefinite period, and how the South American nations had begun lend-lease shipments to the northern continent, and how Thailand and Indonesia were contributing rice.†   (source)
  • It was to be laced by canals with private landings for power boats, a floating social hall in the middle of an artificial lake, at the bottom of which lay restored galleons, imported from the Bahamas; Atlantean fragments of columns and friezes from the Canaries; real human skeletons from Italy; giant clamshells from Indonesia—all for the entertainment of Scuba enthusiasts.†   (source)
  • Start along the Pacific coast of South America, and you can follow it up north through Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Central America, Mexico, the western United States, Canada, and Alaska, then around and down through Kamchatka, the Kuriles, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and New Zealand.†   (source)
  • In January the whole of Borneo and Indonesia is in the northern system, but in July the division has shifted away up north, so that all of India and Siam, and everything that's to the south of that, is in the southern system.†   (source)
  • Thus communists have played an important role in the freedom struggles fought in countries such as Malaya, Algeria, and Indonesia, yet none of these States today are communist countries.†   (source)
  • But Indonesia is the place I want to get back to," said Boris, tossing the hair out of his eyes.†   (source)
  • In 1947 we began to receive Dutch people who had been prisoners of the Japanese in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Probably something I picked up in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • It's a long haul to Indonesia-make the plans you need in the air if you have to.†   (source)
  • Kara recalled what he'd said about the rash he'd picked up in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Maybe Indonesia-they have a large population nearby.†   (source)
  • What would I need for my journey to Indonesia?†   (source)
  • After many weeks I was both sad and relieved to say goodbye to Indonesia and head back to the West.†   (source)
  • Evidently news of the altercations with you in Indonesia have leaked and are causing a stir.†   (source)
  • That's why you waited for me in Indonesia.†   (source)
  • It was the same woman I had followed to Indonesia, to Zurich, to the Congress Hotel.†   (source)
  • They blocked the air-traffic routes between Indonesia and France.†   (source)
  • Or three, he was on his way here, to Indonesia.†   (source)
  • …on mdr patients in Peru, which he had to read and respond to carefully; worried and worrisome messages about projects in which pih was involved, in Russia and Chiapas and Guatemala and Roxbury; affectionate greetings and requests for advice from priests and nuns and anthropologists and health bureaucrats and fellow doctors, in Cuba, London, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Paris, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa; and always a few queries like this: "Just a wrench to throw in your head.†   (source)
  • He told me too how, in Indonesia, he had been converted to Islam by his friend Bami the cook: giving up pork, fasting during Ramadan, praying to Mecca five times a day.†   (source)
  • In Indonesia.†   (source)
  • The governments of Britain, Germany, France, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil …. a dozen others are pulling out the stops.†   (source)
  • Ninety percent of South Africans spent money on festivals, as did a majority of people in Pakistan, Ivory Coast, and Indonesia.†   (source)
  • Instead, I was sure, they smacked of the excess and privilege of a sclerotic, purulent culture, the very forces that our nation's people and will were struggling against, from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia to where we were posted at the time, in the foothill country of old Burma, approximately 125 kilometers from the outskirts of Rangoon.†   (source)
  • 1 percent of their money on alcohol and tobacco in Papua New Guinea; 5 percent in Udaipur, India; 6 percent in Indonesia; and 8.†   (source)
  • Half a world away, in Indonesia, a woman continues to control economic assets that she brought into a marriage.†   (source)
  • Nora and I shopped, got facials, or journeyed to other parts of Indonesia—just. the two of us, girl time.†   (source)
  • The custom occurs on a smaller scale in Yemen, Oman, Indonesia, and Malaysia; among some Bedouin Arabs in Saudi Arabia and Israel; and among Bohra Muslims in India and Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Indonesia offered what seemed like a limitless range of experience, but there was a murky, threatening edge to it.†   (source)
  • At the time it was called Irian Jaya, but had recently changed its name to Papua because of some misguided political notion that doing so might further its quest for inde-pendence from Indonesia.†   (source)
  • "You could have tracked me down in Washington, but you chose to go to Indonesia and wait for me there, because you knew that I would know," Thomas continued.†   (source)
  • Indonesia.†   (source)
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