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American women are excluded by law and regulation from assignment to units, such as infantry, armor and artillery, that are likely to be engaged in combat. But Panama demonstrated how such distinctions blur when the shooting starts. Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder argued last week that "once you no longer have a definable front, it's impossible to separate combat from noncombat. The women carried M-16s, not dog biscuits...
...lazy, but damn, he's good. Smoother than silk, smoother than a baby's behind--pick your own smooth simile. He can play ball. His off-balance jumpers look funny, but they hit nothing but net. He may not run much, but when he does, he's a blur. And on the rare occasions he decides to get a rebound, he skies. They call him Baby Jordan--he's got the Great One's hairdo (or lack thereof), flapping tongue and jump-out-of-the-gym dunk crossed with B.J. Armstrong's oh-so-innocent, what-me-worry baby face...
...Quayle to disarm the hard-liners even before Bush left Europe. Quayle uttered anachronistic noises to the Washington Post, including a nostalgic reference to the Soviet Union as a "totalitarian state." If Quayle's partial retraction a few days later -- he changed the description to "authoritarian" -- seemed to blur the Administration's view even more, that was part of the game. Behind the scenes, White House officials reminded conservatives that the overtures to the Soviets were extremely popular. "The big question is, Can we break 80% in our approval rating?" said a West Wing aide only half jokingly...
...attention, racing through the audience on "Only The Good Die Young," cartwheeling off his Steinway on "Big Shot," and performing nearmagical tricks with the piano. Joel played behind his back, used his feet and alternated hands with such speed that at times he seemed little more than a blur at the keyboard...
Regan would argue that he didn't violate the tax law. (A former IRS commissioner was prepared to testify to much the same thing, but the jury was not allowed to hear this because the judge accepted the Government's argument that his views might blur the issue.) Regan's trades were part of a hedging strategy under which you buy and sell related securities at the same time. You lose on one and gain on the other, but if you've done the math right, you'll usually lose a little less than you gain. Yippee...