Word: minefields
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Between Metullah in northern Israel and Nabatiyah in southern Lebanon, a winding road passes through two P.L.O. minefields. The Israelis have made no attempt to clean out the mines, a tedious and risky job that they would have to take on if they stayed. The Israelis are apt to find that Lebanon itself is a political minefield that poses ever greater dangers with each passing...
...least some B-School students agree that the workload changes will be beneficial and are much needed. "We had to go through a political minefield to get here," Vytas Kiselius, a second year student and member of the RCS said this spring. "Students now feel the workload and the pressure are counterproductive," he added...
...satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos and the Hallelujah Chorus. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd maneuver through this minefield on literal flat feet, turning the Blues Brothers into the Two Stooges. Go back to Saturday Night Live, guys. The show could use you. And right now, you need...
TIME'S board proved uncharacteristically wary of predicting precisely just how steep or long-lasting the recession will eventually turn out to be. From the crisis in Poland to the future course of interest rates, the weeks and months ahead are a minefield of uncertainties. Any one of several factors could play havoc with even the most carefully devised economic forecast...
...private quarters at 10 Downing Street, had every reason to pay close attention to the victor. Some newspapers described Williams as the probable successor to the Prime Minister. As Labor M.P. Roy Hattersley put it: "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...