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Bryant would not relent, however. In the last inning the squad staged a dramatic comeback, scoring three runs to bring the margin...
Some Western analysts believed that Beijing would come down hard on the resurgent activists only to relent by the June deadline to demonstrate enough improvement to merit renewal of MFN. Or, the experts said, the tough old communists expect Clinton to back down and compromise. Either way, they are making it extremely difficult for themselves to meet the U.S. demand for % "overall significant progress." Last week they were not even trying...
...much mutual consent as a Mafia shakedown. Russia had cowed its independence-minded neighbors with tacit threats of dismemberment before. In the former republics of Moldova and Azerbaijan, an undeniable pattern has emerged. Secessionist rebels, abetted by rouge Russian forces, score impressive military successes. Miraculously, when these states relent and agree to join the C.I.S., Russia's ability to impose a lasting cease-fire soars...
...said, "The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves." Fielding is a war that involves not just a simple nerve but an entire neural network. Should you make the pickoff move now? Should you play the line? Does the outfield play shallow? This war doesn't relent. Every decision you make has alternatives and your choice is easily proved wrong, depending upon variables ranging from the drop of the curveball the pitcher throws to the whims of the third-base coach...
...meeting halls was mixed, and at one gathering of 400 in Novokuznetsk, some in the audience grumbled aloud. An elderly woman, a pensioner, followed him around asking insistently, "How can you live on 6,000 rubles (($9)) a month?" Yeltsin agreed life was hard, but the woman would not relent. Finally, exasperated, he fired back, "Don't vote. That is your right...