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Mills can exert even more influence than normally belongs to a Ways and Means chairman because both the House and the committee are pretty evenly divided between liberals and conservatives...
Only the most severely paralyzing strokes have a physical effect on the patient's sexual powers. But a simple stroke of moderate severity on either side of the brain is almost certain to exert indirect effects. Desire is likely to be reduced because the patient is depressed. This and other emotional disturbances can drastically reduce sexual competence even when there is no obvious physical impairment. And since intercourse causes a dramatic rise in blood pressure, it carries the risk of provoking hemorrhagic strokes in weakened arteries, especially if blood pressure is already high...
...still unhappy with his role in foreign policy-the role of advocating policies he had no part in making. Typically, Kennedy spent one session with Stevenson in which he did not discourage Adlai from running for the Senate. Then, in a second meeting, Kennedy told Stevenson he could exert more influence as U.N. ambassador than as junior Senator from Illinois. The President promised Stevenson "an expanding role in the making and execution of foreign policy...
...Ryan talks victory; he sees the cold war and its concomitant arms-spending as an obstacle to the goals which a progressive society must fulfill. He is convinced that only in a world en route to disarmament can the wisdom and spirit that distinguish the United States among nations exert their full influence...
...Coop offers its drenched customers two models: the $3.98 version is a push-it-up-yourself model, and is recommended especially for those with athletic pretensions. The more popular $5.00 model requires only that the carrier exert enough energy to push a "release button." whereupon the umbrella flies open with astonishing rapidity, somewhat endangering the owner, umbrella, and by-standers...