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...told Lash that when the police began to clamp down on security, the typical number of rape attempts dropped rapidly...
...gallbladder operation, he began to feel pains in his lower right abdomen. His physician assured him that his discomfort was normal and would soon disappear. It persisted; more than two years later, an X ray revealed why: Everard's surgeon had failed to remove a hemostat, or surgical clamp, which had lodged in his patient's abdominal cavity. The facts speak for themselves, argued Everard's attorney. They did indeed. Holding that such a condition could only result from negligence, a court duly awarded...
...Harvard Parking Office has hired five crimson-clad meter maids in an effort to clamp down on widespread parking violations...
...Even before the Scranton report was made public, the President had taken action on his own last week to clamp down on campus violence. In a move that meshed well with Republican campaign strategy, he asked Congress to add 1,000 FBI men to the existing force of 7,000 and make it a federal crime to bomb any "organization or institution receiving federal financial assistance"-a description fitting almost all colleges...
...representative of the majority of Palestinians. Some would like to see the Israelis give the West Bank Palestinians enough freedom to establish some unified political structure, but they know that if the army gave more leeway, the terrorists would take advantage of it and the Israelis would have to clamp down even harder...