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...Observers say that the BJP is hoping to use Vajpayee through the next general elections, but no further. The party currently rules in a coalition, with Vajpayee as the glue that holds it together. If it manages to win an absolute majority, it won't need him any longer. The Prime Minister has largely accepted this gradual decline. His great ambition on gaining office was to do for India-Pakistan relations what Nixon did for China and the U.S.: only a right-winger, went the argument, could take the country into a peace deal with the archenemy. And this Vajpayee...
...people who thought that the extracellular matrix was important when most others thought it was a non-specific glue,” Ingber explained...
...bracket, it's 16%. For most substances, boys and girls use at similar rates. But girls ages 12 to 17 are more likely to abuse psychotherapeutic drugs such as Valium. They are also more likely to have used inhalants--such as air freshener, glue, paint or cooking spray--in the past month. A total of 6.2 million American girls and women have risked brain damage and death by "huffing" these common household products to get high...
...told me. All of them are very good at distracting themselves. The hardest part often is just to sit down. When Larry Weinstein and I were at the Writing Center, we used to joke that the single most important implement for a writer was a pot of glue: you paint it on the chair and then you sit down...
...nasty and oppressive regime seems sad and bullied and even a little bit cute—the “Tickle-Me-Elmo” of totalitarian states. And let’s not forget the enduring appeal of its cigar-chomping despot, the “glue that holds Cuba together,” as Coyula-Cowley says, and the only dictator clever enough to get people to call him by his first name. Why, everybody loves “Fidel”—especially the movie stars, left-of-left congressmen, and American academics...