Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration that prided itself on cool and detailed planning, the new need to put out sudden brushfires in Congress was rather embarrassing. Once lost, communication with Congress cannot readily be re-established in the face of widening differences...
...transcript referred to eight murders. These facts, however, cannot be used to prosecute anyone because such bugging and wiretapping was illegal at the time. Subsequent legislation legalizing eavesdropping under certain circumstances is not retroactive...
Stay the Knife. Technically, the total suppression of pain comes only with anesthesia, which cannot be prolonged. The lighter state of analgesia, or relief of pain without loss of consciousness, is far more difficult to achieve. For cancer patients with intractable pain of indisputably physical origin, neurosurgeons have devised a number of radical operations. One of the commonest, for pain anywhere below the neck, is cordotomy-literally, cutting the spinal cord-a remedy that is less drastic than it sounds. In the standard operation, the cord is exposed and a small cut is made in the nerve bundles controlling...
...lesson to be learned from the Minneapolis experience is that each orchestra must devise ways to serve its community better. As Shaver warns: "You cannot raise endowments by trying to finance the status...
...have been administered, or whether the timely has retrieved the timeless. Kahn does not distrust the text. He simply looks into it with the sardonic eyes of a Brecht. The result is a play about war, heroism and patriotism colored in the mock-ironic hues of a generation that cannot believe in war, heroism and patriotism. In that light, valor may appear as cruelty and national honor as parochial vanity...