Word: blows
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...economy were correct, the tax increase on business would be only $114 billion, and the cut for individuals would be $131 billion, leaving a $17 billion gap. Packwood and Rostenkowski quickly agreed on how to raise $7 billion, but deadlocked on the remaining $10 billion. "It's a blow to us to have been so close and yet so far," said Rostenkowski as they broke late Thursday night. "He and I almost cried," Packwood reported at a press conference Friday morning. Nonetheless, the two chairmen began meeting yet again, with Packwood vowing that they would stay in session however long...
That is what makes the growing problem of drugs in sports seem so insidious, and why each new disclosure about a career destroyed or an athlete dying young comes as such a head-snapping blow. In an era so stingy with heroes, the fall of sports stars to the lure of cocaine and other narcotics has helped spur the growing national concern about drug abuse. It has also prompted college and professional sports officials to search for new ways to crack down on the illicit indulgences of those who are supposed to serve as exalted role models...
...Durban, meanwhile, a three-judge Supreme Court panel struck a body blow at the country's ten-week-old state of emergency. On Monday it ruled that two key provisions of the emergency regulations concerning arrests and detentions were invalid. The court held that Botha had overstepped his bounds by empowering security forces to detain without charge anyone considered to be a threat to public order. The suit had been brought on behalf of Solomon Tsenoli, a black detainee who was arrested June 12. After Tsenoli was released, there was a rush of activity in all four provinces as lawyers...
...looting of rare artifacts but about the damage done by treasure hunters, most of whom care little about the remnants of the sunken ships. The scientists, accustomed to removing artifacts gingerly, carefully digging with spoons and even their fingers, are particularly horrified by the use of mailboxes, which can blow 3- ft. to 6-ft. holes in the sand, scattering artifacts...
When Muslim fundamentalists disable a crucial Soviet oil refinery, Moscow works out a cold-blooded scheme to prevent the country's economy from collapsing: KGB agents blow up a group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies...