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...Dutch army erected minimilitary camps around the consulate and the train. After the initial violence, the atmosphere aboard the train lapsed into a tense quiet. "But it was getting very cold," reported an elderly hostage who was released last week. The terrorists refused to allow mechanics to repair the train's heating system, but they accepted piles of blankets...
...sailing over them on a self-important little ship piloted by proud matrons going nowhere with a great show of dignity, dragging the water for warmth with elegant fishnets. We are the crew, and now and then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down...
...repair work and carpentry in town. I might take a job as the janitor of the grade school this fall...
Louis A. Law '75 said the damages cost about $1000 to repair...
...that has worsened the present impasse, but the background of the crisis is complex. Constantly rising demands for care have all but overwhelmed NHS and raised its costs to $8.2 billion. This has forced some people to wait months, or in some cases years, for routine treatments like hernia repair and other elective operations. For years the nation's 15,000 junior hospital doctors have put up with the long hours (more than 80 a week) and low wages (still held to a maximum of ?6,279 or $12,872 a year) because they have hoped to attain...