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...armed services are not interested in spending money on programs that do not produce weapons. Promotions go to those officers who command warships and fly warplanes. Says a Navy captain: "You don't make admiral driving freighters." Left to their own devices, Pentagon planners invariably opt for the furthest reaches of technology, seeking machines with almost magical properties. What they usually get are production delays, cost overruns and hardware that never lives up to its advance billing. They are again talking up their pet projects. "The Pentagon sees this crisis as 100% justification for every system it has or wants...
...been a runner for five years, a rower for one. I know physical pain, I know what it means to push my body to its furthest limits. But I never imagined I would hit a point when the only thing that kept me going was sheer stubbornness, pure unrelenting mental pressure...
...from clear that the new drugs will succeed even in this limited way. None have been tested in a full-scale trial designed to mimic the conditions addicts encounter on the street. Buprenorphine, which is one of the furthest along in testing, is unlikely to receive approval before 1992. Scientists also readily concede that medical therapy fails to address the underlying psychological and social causes of drug abuse. Even if an addict is weaned from one drug, they say, he will very often take up another. A federal study released in August found that as many as 47% of patients...
...Cliburn never made any sharp break, just gradually stopped accepting new engagements, spent more time visiting friends (he lives with his mother, Rildia Bee, now 92), composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself. "I am the furthest thing from a recluse," he says. And somehow the first year off stretched into eleven. Then what inspired his return to the stage? "I don't know," he says. "I was invited. I think I'll just ease into the water...
...uses the city solicitor's opinions--which are the furthest thing from legal opinions--to his advantage," says William Cavellini, a leader in the 16-years fight against MIT's University Park development. "It's all decided before the council meeting starts...