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...authorize tariff and credit concessions. The White House has been noncommittal, on that subject and on the possibility of Gorbachev's attending the G-7 summit. Among the other G-7 members, Germany is strongly in favor of inviting Gorbachev and of doing anything else that might prop up the Kremlin leader; it trusts Gorbachev far more than any potential successor to carry through the barely begun pullout of 380,000 Soviet troops from what used to be East Germany. But the summit hosts in Britain are divided. Prime Minister John Major has spoken in favor of inviting Gorbachev...
...execution was helped right along by senior wing Steve Cohn's two tries. Scrum half Andy Howard and prop Chris Geary each scored one more point than the entire Northeastern team did with its solitary tallies...
...There isn't anything that's obvious to do," Jewett says, laying some of the blame for campus crime on students who prop open or forget to lock doors and who walk alone at night without considering the risks. He said he considered the main challenge "getting people to change their mindsets...
Harvard, lacking size, had shuttled many of its forwards between the "A" and "B" sides. The prop position, especially, was undermanned. Vito Sperduto and Matteo Pesci played in the B-side match until the heat and cramps ground them down...
...case lasted longer than the others'. After staying in bed for six days and losing 15 pounds, I felt well enough to climb on board an Air Polynesie prop plane to return to Papeete. There were a few days left before our return flight, and I wanted to spend that time eating well, relaxing and resting up from my ordeal...