Word: partially
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Bodily Harm takes such complexities further, building an entire story line on the freelancer Rennie's gap between outer confidence and inner decimation. Her fluffy but well-ordered life having suddenly exploded in a partial mastectomy, a breakup with the man she lives with and subsequently a death threat. Rennie successfully wheedles her editor into sending her to write a travel piece on St. Antoine, an obscure Caribbean island. The Caribbean sun is soothing, but the islanders are fomenting revolution; and the steadily more surreal chain of events that lands Rennie in a tropical jail teaches her only...
...strike-that it is meant to prevent. Once the action begins, the whole doctrine is self-cancelling." That much even the President has implicitly acknowledged: during his press conference two weeks ago, he allowed that there would be no winners, only losers, in a nuclear war. Reagan's partial repudiation of his earlier talk about a limited and presumably winnable nuclear war has come about in response to public anxieties that Schell has articulated more effectively than any other single figure in the current debate...
Though services would have to be cut drastically without at least a partial over-ride, even Question I faces an uphill battle against apathy and the high cost of living...
...asking voters for more money than otherwise allowed by Prop 2 1/2. Some municipalities placed on the ballot money requests for specific outlays, such as land purchase and building maintenance, some have asked voters to modify the terms of bonded indebtedness and others, like Cambridge have asked for a partial or total over ride of the tax cuts mandated by Proposition...
Most towns requesting some sort of over ride have done so out of dire financial need, and rejection by voters may favor the severs cuts of employees and programs In Canton, where voters defeated a partial over-ride referendum by a three to two margin. Executive Secretary Gerard C. Kelly said yesterday. "We are hurt very badly. "As a result of the no vote. "We are not spending a dime for road management," he said...