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With Congress facing painful cutbacks in domestic spending, assistance to "freedom fighters" halfway around the globe is not the most popular issue on the Hill. In addition, many Congressmen feel that the President has been unable to muster much popular enthusiasm for his Central American policies in particular and the Reagan Doctrine in general. House Speaker Tip O'Neill called the President's Grenada visit "a Hollywood kickoff to a greater military involvement in Nicaragua." He warned, "Equipping (the contras) and sending them into battle will lead to nothing but slaughter and humiliation. The shame of that defeat will bring...
Princeton scored the first five points of the second half and never looked back, and the Crimson just wasn't able to muster any serious threats...
...adult life. His condition was due largely to a genetic disorder that afflicts 1 in 500 Americans, causing abnormally high levels of cholesterol to accumulate in the blood and ultimately clog the arteries. In Lewis' case, the strictest low-fat diet and all the drugs that medicine could muster had failed to control the problem. By the time he was 47, his arteries were so blocked--a condition known as atherosclerosis--that he required quadruple-bypass surgery. Nine years later a double-bypass was performed. But in both instances the vessels that had been grafted around his heart became plugged...
...puffed up from the effects of drugs. When Marcos appears at campaign rallies, he is often carried on the shoulders of guards, and he visibly flinches from pain. In the course of his long, rambling campaign speeches, his voice frequently cracks and rasps. Nonetheless, he still manages to muster the will to continue. Warns a Western diplomat: "This is still a formidable political figure...
Freshman Neil Phillips led Harvard with 10 points, and his four-for-10 shooting was about as good as any Cantab could muster...