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Their gravest blunder, and in retrospect the least excusable, was the notion that they could participate--even lead--in whipping up the most extreme and uncompromising attitudes among their constituents and local party delegations, then restrain these attitudes in time to avert misfortune.... By going so dramatically and forcefully on record in favor of the extreme position, Davis and his colleagues encouraged, if they did not ensure, the political result they did not really want...
...Lord Home both fought the Sassenach. Home tried to rally his followers against the English longbowmen. "A Home! A Home!" he cried. But his men-or so legend has it-misunderstood his order and trotted off home. It was then that the family decided to avert future disasters by pronouncing the name "Hume...
Secondly, there is a small body of students who assert that nothing effective can now be done to avert a bloody clash between Black and White nationalisms. These students believe that a situation analogous to Algeria will ultimately develop in South Africa, and that in the end the present White racist government will be supplanted by a harsh Black racist government. These students leave the country or lapse into cynicism...
...avert another deficit as bad as last year's $18.9 million, Curtis President Matthew J. Culligan has lopped 2,200 names from the payroll and pushed through other stringent economies. In an attempt to prop up failing circulation, the Post, having already eliminated half its summer issues, announced a plan to lower its newsstand price from 200 to 100 in almost all of the U.S., while raising the price to 250 in certain selected areas. But so far, the economy campaign has met with slim success. In the first six months of this year, Curtis reversed the trend...
...defective gene inherited from both parents, a PKU baby cannot make use of phenylalanine, which is found in most protein foods, and the poison that accumulates in his system as a result permanently damages the brain. But if PKU is detected early enough, a special diet will avert nearly all the damage. The difficulty lies in early detection. In the laboratory, the blood spots on the filter paper will reveal...