Word: guts
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...rough treatment that Republicans could dish out to what remains of the new world order visibly worries the Europeans. At the least, the Republican- controlled Congress may try to gut the U.N. peacekeeping budget, in light of the Balkan experience. Dissension was not afflicting the U.S. alone though. In Germany the Suddeutsche Zeitung last week put on its front page a classified wire sent to Bonn by the German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push...
...going down foreign ratholes to countries that constantly oppose us in the U.N." But he has limited room to maneuver. Total U.S. largesse abroad in 1994 comes to $12.3 billion. Half of that is military aid, a backdoor subsidy for U.S. weaponsmakers that he is unlikely to gut. Actual developmental aid, the kind conservatives love to hate, comes to only $6.5 billion, down 20% from 1993. The incoming chairman has promised to make no cuts to Israel, the biggest recipient, with $1.2 billion. The Administration has already decided to close 23 Agency for International Development missions. Either way, foreign...
When cold computer analysis clashed with the gut instincts of prosecutors Bill Hodgman and Marcia Clark, Vinson was banished from the strategizing. Simpson's defense team, on the other hand, soaked up the services of its jury consultant every step of the way. As late as last week Dimitrius joined defense lawyers at Robert Shapiro's office for a strategy session in which O.J. participated for 45 minutes by telephone. "He's got a real good sense of who he appeals to," said a source close to the defense...
...mean grade is inherently unreliable as a measure of a class's difficulty. It fails to distinguish between a higher level concentration class of well-prepared students or a flaming gut...
...unclear how class size figures in to the picture. While noting a small class size can help discredit the statistical reliability of the mean, a large class does not necessarily imply a gut...