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...Said he: "The Iranians are doing all they can to restore their credibility in the world banking community." Most observers, however, see no real changes taking place. "Politically, our relations are bad, and, if anything, they seem to be getting worse," said one State Department official. Indeed, progress remains glacial at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague, where a panel has settled only 65 claims, mostly by U.S. citizens and businesses against Iran, for $78 million. Still unsettled: 3,649 claims...
...special quality of Richard is not his glacial cruelty or that he has some half a dozen people butchered to achieve the crown but that his mere presence instills fear in all, generates a nervous electric tension with every crooked step. Even his broad streak of sardonic humor (said to be shared by Stalin) is chilling...
...President really wants "attainment of stability at the lowest possible level of forces," then his only reasons for supporting MX are automatic. The reflexes of "bigger is better and "what the Russians have, we must have" have won another victory in Washington. Congress needs to rise above this glacial inertia while there is still time, move quickly past MX, and go with the weapons systems that ensure peace bombers, submarines, and Midgetman...
...resources haven't come. But there is progress: the elections last year, the functioning of a government. Political parties that seemed as though they would shoot each other at one point are now working together. There is continued progress on agrarian reform and human rights. It's glacial progress. It's maddening, but it's there...
...been nervously founded on a gamble about the sports fan's adaptability to different time zones. There is something spiritually dislocating, even depraved, about football in May. Still, Homo sapiens has adjusted to the idea of having ice hockey's Stanley Cup playoffs proceed at their glacial pace through the same month, so perhaps the content of seasons is just a matter of habit. When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount movable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of night and day and even the terrestrial seasons. If he wished such special effects...