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...artist's expertise does not embarrass Thai antique dealers, who often pass off Yas' reproductions as originals. While the sculptor's work is so highly regarded that he charges between $1,000 and $2,000 for his best stone figures, the dealers who peddle them as antiques can ask-and get-up to ten times as much...
...first reaction by Washington to the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was to increase the size of a U.S. training exercise in the Egyptian desert scheduled for November. Operation Bright Star is being scaled down, in apparent recognition that so suffocating a U.S. embrace could only embarrass Sadat's successor...
BUCKNELL 49, CORNELL 30--The Bisons embarrass the Big Red as yet another conference squad falls to an outsider. Are you listening, Mr. Giamatti...
...speak to tenants and to listen to their concerns." People just dropping by for a meeting do not disguise their names and addresses. Erickson, by the way, says on that score: "I honestly cannot remember the signature process." The whole episode stinks, and if it doesn't deeply embarrass Harvard--embarrass it enough to can Erickson, or whoever had the bright idea to send him, embarrass it enough to apologize--it is proof of something...
...into some programs that Reagan had earlier defined as part of an untouchable "social safety net." True enough, current formulas are widely believed to reward recipients of some of these benefits, especially Social Security, more than the rise in their real living costs would warrant. Nonetheless, the decision might embarrass the President, who had pledged only last Tuesday that "the budget will not be balanced at the expense of those dependent on Social Security...