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...summoned her (nudge, wink) to his royal presence. After Bathsheba told him she had become pregnant, the King 1) tried to trick her husband, a loyal if unimaginative soldier, into sleeping with his wife and 2) when that failed, arranged for the unwitting cuckold to be placed in optimum jeopardy during a battle with the Ammonites. Shocking stuff, told with no holds barred in the Old Testament...
Last fall those Kuwaiti officials who would hazard a guess at the optimum size of the Palestinian population put the figure at 100,000. "Now surely we can achieve that," says one minister. "We can do it either by denying ( readmission to those who left and deporting some of those who stayed -- or we can kick out some who stayed and replace them with some who left who we are fairly sure can be trusted...
...defenses; (2) take out war production at the 26 key targets; (3) launch a three-front land war at the Turkish, Syrian and Kuwaiti borders . . . Our great danger is delay." A Wall Street Journal editorial writer daydreams: "If we take Baghdad and install a MacArthur regency, that is the optimum...
...altitude. After graduation, he went on to become the first American to win the International Soaring Championship, at St. Yan, France in 1956. While soaring, and daydreaming, he also conceived the MacCready speed ring, a simple indicator now universally used by glider pilots to determine the optimum speed they should use in flying between thermals, or updrafts...
...Europe she has gained a formidable backstage reputation for demanding the optimum in production and rehearsal time and, if not satisfied, canceling. "She's hardly ever in agreement with any director," says Niccolo Parente, artistic director of the San Carlo opera house in Naples, who, nevertheless, is an admirer. "She is fanatical," he adds, "but is often right." Says Anderson: "They say that singers have resonance where other mortals have brains. But I do have a brain, and I can make a decision based on something more than notes." Many of her decisions to walk out of productions were based...