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...journalists, who will be spending the semester at Harvard, introduced themselves to an audience of about 150 at the Kennedy School. They stressed a populist philosophy of government--the idea that an individual can make a difference in the system--as they described their decisions to enter the political fray...
...campaign for a second term by threatening to skip the Feb. 24 Democratic primary altogether and run as an independent in April's election. Not to be outdone, a brigade of would-be successors, all lifelong Democrats, proclaimed that they too might shun the party and enter the fray as independents or even -- horrors! -- as Republicans. Crowed the mayor, whose best hopes for re-election depend on a crowded field: "Monkey see, monkey do. The more the merrier...
...haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been reconstituted. Dental floss is usually made of fine strings of nylon. If waxed, the strings tend to fray less often during use. Unwaxed pieces, however, are thinner and can fit better in small cracks. And rack and pinyon steering is the term for a geared steering mechanism first found in European cars. The system has fewer linkages than ordinary steering (one rather than five or six) so that the steering wheel...
...sound of gunfire erupted from the back of the plane. A group of Basques had annexed the territory surrounding the lavatories and refused to let anyone through unless they admitted that "we're Number 1." As we hurried back to join the fray--we both had a few drinks in us waiting to be processed--Tim told me about Lt. Col. North...
Joining the fray from Iran, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini appeared to squelch one of Reagan's last chances to salvage something from the wreckage of his secret initiative to Tehran. Though Reagan announced at his news conference that there would be no more arms deliveries, he expressed a rather wan hope that the U.S. could stay in sympathetic touch with so-called moderates in Khomeini's government. That, the 86-year-old Ayatullah quickly & made clear, would happen only over his dead body. Speaking with his old-time pungency, Khomeini implied that those Iranians who had been dealing with...