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Dayan was full of admitted contradictions, a political maverick, immensely charming but fiercely independent and often gloomily distant. His first wife Ruth once remarked that "it's very difficult to be his wife, but it's wonderful to be on the sidelines watching him. He doesn't ^ like anything that's conventional, and he must do everything to perfection." Fearless to the point of folly on the battlefield, he initiated the tradition of Israeli officers personally leading their troops into battle. His extraordinary courage and enormous stature inevitably made him a lightning rod for Israel...
...Office of Extramural Research and Training, said, "but they cannot replace studies in a whole living animal." He noted that the NIH has worked on developing alternative approaches for as long as it has been in existence, but added, "Right now those alternatives are in the dear distant future...
Placing a distant third place was Boston College with 74 points, followed by Northeastern (135), Brandeis (155), Tufts...
...with his uncle to be a championship sprinter. Despite having more talent than anyone in western Australia, Archy, like anyone else who has ever been on a ranch or a farm and in a movie, bolts. Finding the opportunity to get away after his first big race in a distant town, Archy informs his uncle-mentor that...
Most members of TIME'S Board of Economists regard a U.S. return to the gold standard as a distant and potentially dangerous goal. They maintain that such a move would probably force the Federal Reserve to try to make dollars more valuable by holding down the money supply and pushing up interest rates. Such action would, of course, crush businesses heavily dependent on borrowed funds and substantially boost unemployment. The dollar would be under particular pressure whenever conflicts like the Iran-Iraq war caused wealthy Arabs and other panicky investors to seek the safety of the yellow metal. Warns...