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...Arabs are not going to stop trying to drive them out. I would be very surprised if the world sees Middle East peace in the lifetime of anyone now living. Perhaps the most that can be. hoped for is an agreement in which the two sides would refrain from using armed force...
...that show a bit too much Freudian slip. "There comes a time to put principle aside and do what's right," goes one quote. "We've got them right where they want us," said another legislator. Proclaimed one statehouse leader: "The chair would wish the members would refrain from talking about the intellectual levels of other members. That always leads to problems." The chair sometimes must wish the members would refrain from talking...
Noguchi's tight-lipped discretion was not the result of a spontaneous personality change. Rather, the five-member Los Angeles County board of supervisors had ordered him two months ago to confine his reports to strictly physiological data and refrain from "sensationalism and editorializing." Three days before Belushi's death, the board expressed its displeasure more firmly and voted unanimously to seek the coroner's resignation. Noguchi refused to quit his $69,000-a-year job, and so the supervisors late last week upped the ante by suspending him for a month. The board seems intent...
...Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolf Berle,posed attacking the Depression with big Government and monopolistic enterprises. This ran contrary to the Brandeis )ias against a strong central Government, Big Business in general, and many of the New Deal's collectivist approaches. "Bigness is always badness," became his familiar refrain. At one point, he threatened "to hold the Government control legislation unconstitutional from now on," unless the Administration reversed the Big Business trend in industry and agriculture. Eventually he recanted, but his threat was taken seriously in the White House...
...yesterday. "Throwing things on the ice could cost us the game. First, we can get a penalty. Second, it can stop our momentum. Third, it could cause an injury. I want the fans to be loud and supportive--and they've been great--but I also hope they'll refrain from throwing anything. It's just too important a game...