Word: bread
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...know the story very well. Certainly each government has powerful reasons to refrain from anything more than diplomatic protests even if Arafat is killed. Egypt would lose the U.S. aid that pays for the very weapons it would deploy ($2 billion a year) and for much of its daily bread. Jordan is likewise dependent, Syria's equipment is too outdated to risk war, and even Saddam Hussein can hardly threaten Israel with ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction whose existence he strenuously denies...
...clubby Bechtel Room in Emerson Hall. Nevertheless, it paled in comparison to the Romance languages and literatures meeting in the Ticknor Lounge. There, along with Pepsi, Canada Dry and Diet Coke, students found neatly laid-out rows of Carr’s Water Biscuits, Brie wedges and French bread slices on plates with paper doilies. There were also assorted cookies from boxes of Pepperidge Farm’s Entertainment Collection (Milano, Geneva, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lisbon, Chessmen and Chocolate Pirouettes) arranged in enticing circles. The pièce de resistance was a white porcelain bowl with a blue flower pattern filled...
...this subject to change? Absolutely. Oil may be the Arab world's daily bread, but it's also its only weapon - if, say, Arafat is killed or Israel goes too far in its incursions into Palestinian territories, popular sentiment in the already-shaky local regimes could force Arab governments to put up a show of defiance to calm their constituencies. And even the threat of an embargo could push up global prices, just as the more immediate threat of a war-related supply disruption is doing so now. And it might even have the desired effect - just as Sept...
...artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty is expected to breed generosity. Usually it does. Like stealing bread and sleeping under bridges, Rev. Platt's error - linking the quid too closely to the quo - is one much easier for the poor to make than the rich...
Affordable housing, a perennial bread-and-butter issue for the council, was among the proposals for building community...