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...take off. Pettit was at the controls. "Slushy runway. Do you want me to do anything special for it or just go for it?" he asked. Wheaton: "Unless you got anything special you'd like to do." Pettit then described his planned ascent maneuvers, with the final, jesting caveat, "depending on how scared...
...South and the East. That might not be the last. "When it stays very cold," said NWS Meteorologist Nolan Duke, "it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder." His colleague Larry Wilson added a disquieting caveat. "These situations," he warned, "can last for a month." For most of the U.S., where even a brief thaw was still a dream, one week had seemed more than enough. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago, with other U.S. bureaus
...other caveat: For some 2000 years now, Christians around the world have celebrated the birth of Jesus each year in Word and Song. This rich musical tradition had led man in 1981 to produce such works as "A Kenny Rogers Christmas." The question, of course, is how this phenomenon came to pass. Not that there is an answer--it just makes you wonder...
...Nolan, "There are two rules in writing editorials: 1) be clear; 2) have a point. This editorial satisfies neither rule." The unkindest cut came from former White House Spokesman Jody Powell, who suggested that the Post should change its editorial page motto from ''An Independent Newspaper" to "Caveat emptor "(Let the buyer beware...
...would consider. Certainly not the U.S., which not so long ago suffered through revelations about CIA plots to kill Castro. Says a State Department official: "Assassination as a tool of foreign policy is a repugnant idea to this Administration and to the American people." Quite apart from the moral caveat there is a practical reason for caution: Gaddafi's successor, wherever he is, could well be worse...