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...effect, Moscow had backed away from the inflexible position that it had adopted last December, when the NATO powers voted to develop and deploy a new medium-range nuclear strike force in Western Europe by 1983. The NATO force would consist of 572 Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles capable of striking Soviet territory. That force was aimed at countering the expanding Soviet arsenal of comparable weapons that already face Western Europe, which include 50 Backfire bombers and 200 medium-range SS-20 missiles. The Kremlin refused all offers to bargain with the Western allies on mutual reduction...
...three days later to integrate the city's school system with 22 surrounding districts. The agency argues that Houston's situation differs from Atlanta's because some districts in the Atlanta case had set up desegregation programs, while so far integration efforts in the Houston area consist of a voluntary-busing plan that the Justice Department calls "inadequate...
Holm's research deals with the effect of inorganic compounds in biological processes such as plant respiration, Dudley R. Herschbach, chairman of the Chemistry Department, said recently, adding, "By elegant, imaginative experiments, he has found the long-sought 'Holy Grail' for some very important enzymes. It turns out to consist of remarkably simple structures...
...living with him when he died, almost always accompanied him. None of Maugham's works is purely autobiographical, but he seems to have come closer than almost any other writer to basing all specifics in his work on personal experience. Morgan shows that many of Maugham's works consist almost entirely of events or characters lifted directly from his life: like his character Alroy Kear, for example, based on Hugh Walpole, Maugham's friend until the publication of Cakes and Ale--so thinly disguised, as well as unflattering, that those involved sued Maugham for libel...
...improve each time, but the "streamlined" feeling created by the removal of hair lessens with each shave. The hair simply hasn't grown back. On the other hand, neither of the first shaves were accompanied by a total taper (ten days or so of almost complete rest when practices consist of minimal yardage while working on race-pace and details like starts, turns and finishes...