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...basic gist of the race is simple: we just beat the hell out of them," said Candy Hooper yesterday...
...women must communicate similar impressions about their sex lives and sexuality for very real reasons as opposed to a flukey coincidence. From the point of view of academic sociology. Hite's research and methods probably aren't tidy enough. But the problem of statistical skewing does not invalidate the gist of the verbal responses they elicited...
...some 1 million people 65 or older and, in some cases, chronically ill (the group that has top priority in the vaccination program), who had received shots. Yet during any single 24-hour period, there are some 16 deaths in this age bracket among every 100,000 Americans. The gist of the official argument was clear: a similar survey of deaths among the elderly who had, say, just drunk coffee might well have shown a higher mortality rate. Nonetheless, even doctors sympathetic to the flu program warned elderly people with heart or other chronic diseases to be wary...
Many voters are unhappy with the results of the second Sinai accord; they claim Israel got nothing of substance from Egypt in exchange for surrendering the Abu Rudeis oilfields and the Sinai passes. Last week the Cabinet recoiled when Rabin outlined the gist of a new U.S.-Israeli approach to further Middle East negotiations. To maintain diplomatic momentum, the U.S. has proposed continuing discussions among Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, toward an "end of the state of war." When Rabin brought the proposal to his Cabinet, he was pinned down in a crossfire. Hawks accused the Premier of being ready...
...painted and sculpted. From abstract expressionism onward, American art has been made only to illustrate their theories. The works are then fobbed off on a public of bourgeois status seekers who strive to soothe their guilt at being rich and successful by patronizing the New. Such is the gist of Wolfe's pamphlet. If it seems familiar, that is only because Wolfe did not invent philistinism...