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...reason to believe the issues involved will be resolved satisfactorily," he said. "We expect these matters to go forward expeditiously and completely." Not everyone in the Reagan Administration was so sanguine. "The apology went a long way to meeting the concerns," said a high-ranking Administration official, "but we await the results." A top intelligence officer expressed skepticism of the State Department's motives. Said he: "They are afraid of the Jewish lobby on one hand and that it might cause the downfall of Shimon Peres on the other...
Harvard researchers eagerly await next week's liftoff of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia, which will carry their unprecedented experiment on the effects of weightlessness on human blood...
...government had not presented sufficient evidence to justify the arrests. An appeals court then stepped in and ruled that no evidence was required during a state of siege. At that point, five of the military officers, understandably baffled by the legal wrangling, turned themselves in at army bases to await a judicial resolution likely to go to the supreme court...
...purchase of 160 acres of farmland. If he knew he were writing a story, Keene might decide to begin it with something more exciting than a ledger sheet. But he has no idea, of course, what shape his book will take. He is innocent of the events that await...
...plug of earth for testing by the EPA. Their gas masks hung nearby, just above the spot where a dark little stream flows from the toxic site under the fence and away into the forest. For now, the locals who are worried are waiting. They await the results of more soil and water tests, and the results of more precisely targeted health studies. Most of all, naturally, they await results at the site itself. They want a permanent cleanup, says Ross, "so that we can all go back into Sleepy Hollow and rest assured that nothing is wrong." Curiously...