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...means at its disposal to pressure the Begin government. Any threats to cut foreign aid to Jerusalem would not only infuriate Begin and harden his position, but would be almost impossible to carry out. Capitol Hill is highly susceptible to Israeli lobbying efforts, no matter what Begin does; two months ago, Congress voted $200 million more in aid for Israel in fiscal 1983 than Reagan had requested. Still, the U.S. appears at least to be contemplating putting some new pressure on Israel. By describing the Israelis last week as an "occupying force" in Lebanon, Reagan was making an oblique reference...
...inserted near the stone, and, depending on the circumstances, the patient will either be sent home for a week, while his urine drains into a bag, or remain overnight in the hospital. The advantage of waiting a week is that it allows time for tissues around the opening to harden, thus enabling doctors to complete the job using only local anesthesia...
During the debate, anti-Dense Pack Congressmen had a field day ridiculing the unproven "fratricide" and silo-hardening theories. "Pearl Harbor was the original Dense Pack," said California Democrat John Burton, reversing Reagan's argument. Iowa Republican James Leach called the attempts to harden silos beyond anything ever achieved "a public works project for the cement industry...
...after Tuesday's lecture. I feel more strongly than ever that we must not harden ourselves like this. We are here at this University not merely to accumulate knowledge, but also to start deciding how we are to make sense of this world and lead our lives. It is a rare gift to us that Robert Coles will acknowledge that these issues are important ones, and will even ask us to think about them in the context of a Harvard course...
...MOST BASIC LEVEL, underwear will become the primary marker of class position. Other, older markers will quickly become ancillary. Further, class barriers will harden because of the methods involved in recognizing these class markers. The following scenario illustrates one kind of behavior we can expect to find in the new age of designer underwear...