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...good opportunity to embark on this forboth the youth and merchants in the city," saidHealy, adding that Cambridge has "no biggerproblem or no lesser problem" with underagedrinking than any other city in the country...
Employees braced for a take-no-prisoners conquest. Together with president Jack Smith, 54, the former head of GM's profitable overseas operations, Smale and the board seemed poised to purge Stempel's top lieutenants and embark on a sweeping new round of layoffs to restructure the former flagship of American industry. "GM is spooked and in complete turmoil," said a longtime supplier. "It is faced with total upheaval caused by an outside force -- something that once was unthinkable...
...Several people my age have friends and neighbors who this disaster has hit," said Mather Master Jeffrey G. Williamson, who conceived the idea for the event. "AIDS and safer sexawareness are very important as they embark ontheir adult lives...
Prudence or Pandering? It is clear that Saddam expected to get away with seizing Kuwait and that Washington was startled by his decision to embark on this wild course. Both miscalculations were serious failures of U.S. policy: it was a tactical error not to lay down Day-Glo markers around Kuwait and a strategic one to misread Saddam's expansionist goals...
...latest round of peace talks produced a particularly brutal series of stabbings and slashings of Israelis by Palestinians. "This is not a spontaneous thing," says Ali Abu Hilal, another opposition activist. "And I think the future will bring more violence." Israeli security experts fear that the rejectionists may embark on a new round of global terror. "Just now their alliance is more like wet clay than a finished pot," says an Israeli official...