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From Paris to Bonn, from London to Rome, the reaction was immediate: a touch of pique, a dash of perplexity and a pinch of barely controlled anger. "It doesn't help us achieve a clearer under-standing of each other's problems, does it?" asked a British official. A diplomat in Bonn called it "unfortunate, ill tuned and wrong." Said an Italian official: "We were rather surprised. We would like to react, but it is wiser that...
...have found themselves a downhiller. Last week at Wengen, Switzerland, Bill Johnson scored the first World Cup victory ever by an American man in a downhill, despite screeching off course on one ski almost into the woods (talk about slam, dash and amazing recoveries). Austrian Franz Klammer was annoyed. If the Americans are going to start winning downhills, truly nothing is sacred any more...
However envious the other Democratic candidates might be of Jackson's unexpected dash into the national spot light, all may have benefited indirectly from his heroics. He not only made their expected November foe, Ronald Reagan, look ineffectual for not gaining Goodman's release earlier, but brought new stirrings of excitement to a Democratic race that had been drifting toward tedium almost before it began. For the moment, anyway, Jesse Jackson was the life of the party...
Bribes, known variously as dash, chai or bonsella-the traditional palm greasing for services rendered or anticipated-have become a way of life. They now take the form of a carton of razor blades, a case of Scotch or the latest in digital watches. Smugglers make a killing in African marketplaces. Recently police raided a privately owned store along Pugu Road in Dar es Salaam and found a cache of spare vehicle parts large enough to fill the cargo hold of a ship. Says former Tanzanian Police Chief Ken Flood: "Africa has always attracted con men and carpetbaggers. But they...
Smith, who played forward on the fourth line, did better as a defenseman on a mid dash power play. Just as the interference penalty to Peter Taglianetti expired. Smith gloved down a clearing pass at the Friar blue line and slapped it off Proulx's blocking glove and into the twines for the go-ahead goal...