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...realization on Arafat's part that the Reagan initiative is the only practical way to go for the foreseeable future." Describing the P.L.O. leader's apparent shift from military bravado to pragmatic diplomacy, a Middle East expert in Amman remarked, "It is time to fish or cut bait. The hour has arrived when Arafat must become a political leader and not just a guerrilla leader...
...antitrust laws, a reprieve for timber companies that hold $2 billion in unfulfilled federal contracts, an exemption that would allow beer distributors to set up local monopolies and an antitrust waiver for the National Football League. There was even a bill that would exempt Zeke's Floatin' Bait, which is manufactured by a company in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., from a 10% excise tax. Despite Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait and monkeys...
...change they saw. Before, in the old Harvard, one sat down to dinner, printed menu in hand, and waited for the attentions of a water a waiter. After, in the new College, lines formed in front of steam tables, where dinner was dished out service-style. "Fish or cut bait," a dean told Anton Myrer '47 upon his return. "We've got no time for that prewar folderol 'Fish or cut bait'. There were double-decker banks in the houses, chow lines, both lines at the Coop". The new Harvard bore only occasional resemblance to the old, great professors still...
...been built about halfway up a tree, with a crude bench and an aperture for shooting. All was still. Only Brezhnev's voice could be heard, whispering hunting tales: of his courage when a boar once attacked his jeep; of the bison that stuffed itself with the bait laid out for other animals and then fell contentedly asleep on the steps of the hunting stand, trapping Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovski in the tower above until a search party rescued...
...from his office door. Slow-spoken and ruminative, with an open face and piercing eyes, Clark amiably acknowledges his limitations, but underplays his ambitions. He has proved an adept student of the protocols of Washington. Asked last week about his lack of credentials, he refused to take the bait. His answer: "I have left that determination to the man who made the decision, namely the President of the United States...