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...Iraqis hope to reduce if not halt the oil exports that provide the revenues needed to bankroll Iran's war effort. A string of air attacks in September, including low-altitude buzz bombing, temporarily stopped petroleum output at the terminal. If Kharg is totally disabled, Iran has threatened to choke off traffic through the 20- to 30-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. has said it would interpret closure of the passage as a strategic threat...
...plate if I'm not," he reasons. Also, he has been hit by the pitcher three times. "I have to show them how to use their elbows, don't I?" Pitchers try to overpower Rose inside, but his solution to waning bat speed has long been just to choke up a little more. Soon he may be holding the bat by the wrong end. In the meantime he is wearing out the left-field rug with liners and pulling more than a few balls into right field. "I still have no trouble with fast balls," he says. "I still have...
Such confidence reflects the absence from the economic picture of many of the warning signs that traditionally signal the end of a recovery. Interest rates, for example, have been falling rather than rising, which would have threatened to choke off the recovery. Renewed rapid inflation at the consumer level, another yellow light, is also not visible...
...tough for me to kind of choke a few throws that I really wanted to let go early in the season, knowing that I had to save something, so I’d have something left in the tank,” Farkes says. “It was tough on me mentally...
...true intentions. "Everyone on our side of the fence believes passionately that [tax cuts] will be a continuing agenda," Flight said. The current proposals had been "sieved for what is politically acceptable." His words were interpreted by many to mean that the Tories would slash taxes and then choke spending on schools and hospitals, contrary to their current protestations. Howard parried this mortal threat to his credibility by firing Flight as deputy chairman, kicking him out of the Tory group in Parliament and having him "deselected" from running again. But Flight decided to fight. He claimed he was only sticking...