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With great fanfare, Russian President Boris Yeltsin completed a peace agreement signed by leaders of the main parliamentary factions, trade unions and religious groups. The accord, which pledges that all sides will refrain from violence, is intended to last two years -- giving the government time to act on economic reforms...
...Barrett enumerated Weld's weaknesses, theaudience of supporters and family members joinedhim in the refrain: "Oh Magoo, you've done itagain...
...link nerves to muscle fiber. That's why the standard rehabilitative therapy for polio victims has been to stimulate nerve activity through heat and rigorous exercise, encouraging the healthy nerves to grow into the spaces left by their infected and damaged kin. "Use it or lose it" was the refrain with which therapists urged on a generation of polio kids...
...reasonable people, but you had better refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of China because we are a people with a strong sense of pride. We are ready to conduct a dialogue with you on the question of human rights, but one should not link irrelevant matters with trade...
People don't want the razor-sharp dissections as much as general appreciation. I call the new trend the "exjock" trend, after all those former jocks showing up on television these days, jocks who refrain from biting analysis in favor of observation...