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...tanks been full of EDC, there would have been nothing left and the ship would have exploded," said Verma, whose crippled ship was anchored yesterday at Dubai for repairs to tanks, crew quarters and port side manifold...
...parsimony has failed to push people off the relief rolls and into jobs, ! and the manifold social evils associated with AFDC have only been getting worse. Poverty rates have generally risen since the late '70s, and the rise has been especially rapid among the children the system was designed to help. Welfare mothers who rear children who in turn go on relief are a core element of the so-called underclass. David Ellwood, a Harvard authority on welfare, figures that a quarter of all AFDC recipients have received benefits, off and on, for ten years or more...
...George drivers all have a lot of what one fan calls "walkin'- around sense." They don't much care what the book says or how Detroit would do it. But homemade fixes abound. A visitor to the pits may notice a mechanic sprinkling baby powder on a manifold gasket to keep it from sticking next time the engine is taken apart. The makeshift caps some crews use to keep debris out of the headers may also look familiar: they're soda cans sawed in half. Finally, a newcomer will be appalled to see Garlits flip a lighted match into...
...even in the gathering darkness of the Sino-Japanese War. Treadup's spiritual contraction', begun when he returned from the Wester. Front, is continued in an increasing hopelessness he feels (and Hersey intends us to understand that all Westerners should have felt this) in the face of China's manifold ills--invasion, constant famine, disease, civil war and corruption...
...five Roman Catholic churches around the U.S., the priests and the congregations recite this prayer at Mass before the consecrated bread and wine are distributed: "We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table . . ." The words, unfamiliar to Roman Catholics, come from the Book of Common Prayer, cherished by Anglicans since the first edition of 1549. The passage now forms part of a Vatican-approved hybrid Mass text that...