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Likud members fear that the Soviet Union has not earned the right to play a major role in such a conference, and that if it does, it will force the Israelis into an unfavorable settlement. They also fear that Peres and Labor could parlay a successful agreement into domestic electoral success in the next parliamentary elections, scheduled for September...
Smilgis came to TIME in 1974 as an editorial assistant in the Nation section. The next year she left the magazine for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, where she did her best to parlay a political-science degree earned at the University of $ California, Berkeley, into the skills required to cover baseball and soccer. She began a three-year writing stint at PEOPLE magazine in 1977, where she both interviewed celebrities and braved the disco and drug dens of New York City for articles. In 1980 she became TIME's show-business correspondent in Los Angeles, then worked there for PEOPLE...
While Aquino rightfully deserves praise for holding together her people against extremism, it is worth remembering that her presidency is still less than a year old. Unless she can parlay her enormous popular support into concrete political stability, the continual crises of the past months will continue to resurface...
...G.O.P. presidential nomination, he returned home with the idea of becoming what Texans call "big rich." He was already worth about $6 million -- cattle feed by local standards. But Big John saw no end to the twin booms in oil and real estate, and aimed to parlay his connections and powerful salesmanship into serious money...
...year-old narrator and his three friends approach the dead body, they begin to get scared: "We all began to nod. We knew about the night shift. I would have laughed then, though, if you had told me that one day not too many years from then I'd parlay all those childhood fears and night-sweats into about a million dollars...