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...That memorandum was canceled by the U.S. after Israel's outright annexation of the Golan Heights in December 1981. When asked whether he thought Israel's recent efforts to revive the strategic relationship would be successful, a State Department official in Washington privately replied last week, "No dice...
...budget 10song album is an expensive proposition. Several major label representatives said the sales of an independent release, or a popular local reputation demonstrated by prestigious bookings or significant radio airplay tend to catch their eyes. Several managers at the conference were trying to load the dice by delivering tapes, or announcements of New York club dates, to the four big-time representatives on the major label panel...
Bottoms powerfully conveys this depressing drama of a vulnerable man in a cold, modern city. His inflections and movements all speak of a person in desperate need of companionship. Rolling his dice, tapping his shoe against the floor, rocking in his baggy pants and chain smoking, Erie narrates his entire life...
...weeks later, Shultz's voice crackled with emotion as he defended the Administration's refusal to encourage negotiations in El Salvador between the government and the guerrillas. "Let them shoot their way into Relations government?" he exploded at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. "No dice!" The next time he was on Capitol Hill, Shultz put the Roman Catholic Church virtually in league with the Soviets over El Salvador. Asked about the problems of Soviet Jews, Shultz seemed to take the question out of context, declaring, "It is a subject we bring up every time we meet with somebody from...
...traditional philosophers--from Spinoza, Hobbes and Hume to Kant, Schopenhauer, and J.S. Mill--because it lends itself, through inaccuracy, to randomness and unpredictability. In this way, he buttresses quantum theory, which incorporates randomness as a principle. Einstein had often attacked this with his famous "God does not play dice with the Universe...