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...tougher than before in many ways. There's a certain amount of political capital that was consumed. The willingness to bite the bullet, to take risks, has dissipated on the part of members for understandable reasons. You can't afford to have everybody at you and still get reelected. But the budget reality is that there is no other choice...
...French National Railroads (S.N.C.F.) has spent $1.6 billion since 1970 to develop the new system, the first super-high-speed passenger line in Europe. In performance, if not looks, the TGV outdazzles even Japan's famed Shinkansen, the 100-m.p.h. bullet trains. Each 660-ft.-long train is a single unit of eight cars with an engine at both ends; there is no break between cars. The aerodynamic shape of the TGV was developed through wind-tunnel tests. The trains are powered electrically from overhead and are about 18 in. lower than conventional rolling stock. Each train...
With 7:05 remaining in the game, Mayer adjusted her aim and tallied a goal of her own. Controlling an Ellen Jakovic throw-in, the halfback faked to the outside, streaked on net and rifled a bullet which bounded high off the hands of the Jumbos' goalie and into the twines...
...intended to issue the 24,000-word document, titled Laborem Exercens (On Working), last spring in connection with the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo Kill's encyclical Rerum Novarum, the first Catholic document devoted to social questions. Its release, however, had to await his recovery from the bullet wounds he suffered last May. "It is only after my stay in hospital," he explains at the end of the document, "that I have been able to revise it definitively...
...Sullivan, who owns a sportswear manufacturing firm in Methuen, Mass.: "The steps that the President is taking are necessary. It may be tough now, but we can weather it." Says James Graham, a high school teacher in North Little Rock, Ark.: "People are going to have to bite the bullet now, or there isn't going to be any bullet to bite in ten years...