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...also took a tough position, threatening to call off the talks if China refused to discuss returning the plane. That's also typical of negotiations with China, even business negotiations - playing the dash-to-the-airport ruse. Sometimes they literally sign agreements at the airport. There's a lot of political brinkmanship and grandstanding here, most of it meant for domestic consumption. The plane has become a symbol for both sides to assert national dignity...
...tone, on touch. This is power beyond what the text can provide. (Bush has courts, Washington, time; I have sentences, capitals, period.) But somewhere in these hypotheticals, somewhere between the shorthand and the puns, between the writing and response, are the beginnings of authority. The space between comma and dash, introduction and headshot, margin and word is space full of promise...
Sometime around March 25, Guralnick's phone will ring, and she will pack up her things and dash off to be with the Suris. She will stay with them through every push, grunt and moan. And when their baby is born, she will pack up her big rubber ball and move...
...officially headed into oblivion after U.S. bankruptcy judge Peter Walsh announced Monday that he'd accept American Airlines' $742 million bid for the carcass of the once-venerable airline. The ruling came just in time for American to dash off a $130 million check - part of an overall assumption of $3.5 billion in TWA debt -to keep the repo men away from TWA's planes. And so Trans World Airlines and its bustling St. Louis hub will survive. The TWA name will...
Taylor--who won two sprints and the hurdles at Heps last week--finished fourth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.99 seconds. Taylor's time of 54.64 seconds from February had placed her 30th on the national performance lists. Taylor will be positioned much higher in the national rankings this spring in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles--her premier event in which she was an Olympic Trial semifinalist this summer...