Word: clearing
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...settlement in the Middle East. They also fretted that the Shultz rejection made a mockery of America's commitment to free speech and jeopardized the Reagan Administration's recently improved relationship with the U.N. Nonetheless, both Reagan and President-elect George Bush supported the decision, although Bush made it clear that he had not been consulted...
...anti-Arafat ruling violates the 1947 Headquarters Agreement between the U.S. and the U.N. That accord states that the U.S. will not keep out anyone who has business before the world body. Among international lawyers, the consensus was that the U.S. had breached its responsibility. "It is quite clear that the U.S. decision is wrong legally," said Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of State and an international lawyer. U.S. courts would probably agree. Earlier this year, when Washington relied on an antiterrorist statute to try to close down the P.L.O.'s observer mission to the U.N., a federal court ruled that...
...durably happy marriage, now in its 46th year) has had the same kind of stabilizing effect on Diebenkorn that the Cote d'Azur did on his great mentor, the subject of his most impassioned reflections, Matisse. This is apparent in Diebenkorn's figurative drawings of the '60s, and transparently clear in the Ocean Park abstractions from landscape that absorbed him from 1970 through to his move from beachside Santa Monica to Sonoma County earlier this year...
...directed, as natural and unaffected as could be. But what holds one's eye is the resolution Diebenkorn finds in the architecture of the body: the way a transverse arm cuts across the gourdlike shape of hips, the thrust of a shin redefining the space around it, the clear slicing of light into dark and profile into void. Diebenkorn's line learned its decisiveness in front of the model. It is clear and energetic, but less meaningfully so, in the earlier landscape abstractions. Some of these are beautiful drawings, but they are made-up images; they do not have...
There is strong evidence that this component of the body' s total cholesterol count helps keep the arteries clear of deadly plaque by vacuuming up LDL, the "bad" cholesterol. -- How can you raise your level of the "good" while lowering the "bad"? The basic approach is to cut down on cholesterol and saturated fats in your diet and get regular aerobic exercise. See MEDICINE...