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...takes hegemons to make a case and absorb the cost," Wallander says," and to do that the U.S. is left...
...lived: Tyrannosaurus rex. Although this beast is a mere adolescent, it is 15 ft. tall and armed with dagger-sharp teeth. The triceratops attempts a retreat, but the cold-blooded creature can only move slowly. It is too soon after sunrise, and the dinosaur hasn't had time to absorb the heat it needs to rouse its sluggish metabolism. While T. rex has the same problem, its longer legs enable it to quickly overtake the docile herbivore. And then...
...billion short). Congress can blame itself for some extra cost. In 1992 it refused to put up any more money, so the federal cleanup agency for almost a year has been unable to sell off the assets of 83 failed S&Ls it has taken over. It can only absorb losses that mount every day that Congress dawdles...
What a bold and perhaps foolhardy move for a man who had seemed to lose his scrappy, street-fighting spirit in the yearlong struggle with the Congress. This was the old Yeltsin again, showing rebellious parliamentarians that he was ready to absorb whatever blows they delivered -- and then hit them harder than ever before. It may have come too late. His enemies threatened to impeach him before he could even get a popular vote organized. But on Sunday he won crucial support from the entire government, including the ministers of defense and security, that could keep him safe until April...
...would be wonderful, though idealistic, if the hotels threatening the sue Harvard had decided to stand behind the University and absorb the losses. But Harvard can't place responsibility on the hotels' shoulders. The decision to move the conference was the University's, not that of the Sheraton or the Park Plaza...