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...saved by a flak jacket from anything worse than a bad bruise. By midmorning the guns had fallen all but silent. By early afternoon every plan, gambit and technique tried by the police had failed. They had attempted to bash in the front door. They tried to drill 2-in. holes through the exterior walls in hopes of pumping in tear gas, but were driven away by gunfire from inside the Move house. They tried to break through to the cellar from an adjacent house, but were again turned back by bullets. The fire department had poured tons of water...
...nostalgic showpieces were more than balanced by ranks of modern battle gear and the precision drill of troops from all branches of the Soviet forces. The 45-minute spectacle was the largest display of military might in the Soviet capital since a similar anniversary in 1965, and included military equipment never seen before in a Moscow parade: squat T-64 tanks, short-range (75 miles) SS-21 missiles and M1976 field guns. Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the Defense Minister, gave the keynote speech. "Capitalist propaganda is making strenuous efforts to falsify history . . . to belittle the role of the U.S.S.R...
...formation of new megapipeline companies is unlikely to have a major effect on homeowners' gas bills. The bigger companies will be able to drive harder bargains on prices with the firms that drill for gas and supply it to the pipelines, but experts doubt that consumers will see much difference in what they...
According to a tentative syllabus, the course will combine frequent writing assignments with extensive feedback from the instructor. "We're not going to drill people in grammar-all the research shows that drilling people in grammar doesn't carry over lose their writing Marius said...
Despite these bright prospects, success is not assured and will probably not occur without the active help of those in positions of academic leadership. For all the experiments and publicity, we still have little first-rate software. Most of the programs available today are basic drill-and-practice routines that resemble expensive electronic work books rather than the more imaginative examples described in this report. Small wonder, since good programs often require more than 200 hours of preparation for a single hour of instruction. To surmount this barrier, university administrators will have to do much more than shower their campuses...