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...texts could buttress the Gospels -- or undermine them...
...wall that Serbian forces had formed around the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo was pierced just enough to let in a ray of hope last week. More than 1,000 Canadian peacekeepers flying the United Nations flag rolled in through the mountains from Croatia to buttress a small U.N. force already in place. The ^ troops and armored vehicles quickly cleared and reopened the airport that had been closed for 87 days by Serbian shelling and sniper fire...
...Bartley applies no such reductive reasoning to the numbers that buttress his arguments. He takes the explosion of new jobs at face value, for example, without pointing out that many paid so little that only the growth of two- income households kept the average family's inflation-adjusted earnings from falling behind...
Ideally, of course, a program to recapture America's competitive might would combine Clinton's emphasis on training and education with Tsongas' determination to buttress manufacturing. But in the absence of any such hybrid strategy, Clinton's focus on people seems more humanly and economically appealing. It is people, after all, who are the ultimate competitors...
...short, gays and lesbians have enough problems without Peninsula. Peninsula's condemnation of the Lowell House vandalism was welcome, but entirely inconsistent with their latest issue which was released at about the same time. Peninsula's words, despite their many disclaimers--and despite their best intentions--only serve to buttress the distaste many people have for homosexuals...