Word: blows
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...blow to one of the Square's most popular bars, a state commission upheld a six-day suspension for underage drinking at the Crimson Sports Grille...
...hardest blow is talking with friends who go to the lesser Ivies in Connecticut and New Jersey. It's easy to pretend you don't care about the Harvard-Yale rivalry when you indisputably attend the best college in the United States. But when some podunk, half-rate magazine calling itself a news provider casts doubt upon that status--as much as you know in your heart of hearts that nothing could possibly be further from the truth--the rivalry suddenly becomes more important...
...allies are determined to act if necessary. But they don't want to leap into battle if the threat is going to blow away after the November elections. European officials have taken in the fact that Clinton has suspended much of the effect of Helms-Burton until next year and promises to waive or apply the D'Amato provisions on a careful, case-by-case basis. "Clinton wants to show he is doing something concrete," says a French diplomat. "We are hearing that things may change by the end of November." Even so, declares French spokesman Doutriaux, "what we want...
When the spinal cord suffers a blow, vertebrae are compressed, and if the force is great enough, fractured. The sheer force of the blow kills some nerves instantly. Then the compression causes electrical impulses traveling through nerve cells in the area to go haywire, and the overload causes many neurons to kill themselves. The dying nerve cells leak calcium, which attracts enzymes to the area that chew on the tissues. The by-products are free radicals, unstable compounds that scavenge oxygen from healthy cells, often destroying them. As these cells die, they trigger a secondary wave of destruction that sweeps...
...serving: a proposal to ban the purchase of handguns by people convicted of domestic violence. Tuesday Clinton will focus on literacy; Wednesday on the environment. He will cap off the week in his acceptance speech on Thursday with more new initiatives, including economic proposals to help soften the blow of the welfare bill he signed last week over the objections of many Democrats. The welfare dispute looms as the main threat to a calm convention as Clinton hopes to become the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win re-election. Democratic officials said Sunday they would not discourage speakers from...