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Throw left and right and tertium quid o'er--Ring in Harvard's happy Thermidor. With a wreath to the Left and a wreath to the Right, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...
...starts at $8,500. Most remarkably, if postal workers were paid at the same rate as Government employees, there would be no postal deficit at all this year. Moreover, postal employees have also written into their 1973 contract something quite unusual: a guarantee against their being laid off, a quid pro quo supposedly for their pledge never to strike. That promise, however, has not prevented them from threatening to strike when their present contract expires on July...
...consumed with lust, to his own shuddering surprise and chagrin, but he does not bridle his concupiscent deskes. He issues a quid pro quo: Isabella's virginity for her brother's life. She is appalled and rather loftily tells Claudio to be resigned to his death. She is not what she seems, for to a Christian no defiling of the body can remotely affect the integrity of the soul...
...complicates the task. But it is a problem of maturing to a fundamentally changed strategic environment. The West, including the U.S., has not been very adept at this. The West has got to understand the alternatives to détente. We have to be forever tough in getting quid pro quos and farsighted in assessing what those quid pro quos...
...palpable sign of the quid pro quo exacted by the Soviets for its Black Sea fleet can be seen on any map of the Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...