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Earlier polls generally had shown a woman vice-presidential candidate would attract about as many voters as she would repel. Politicians, and some pollsters, are not at all sure, though, that the surveys are correctly measuring the extent of potential backlash. They note that voters have been asked to respond to a theoretical situation that they have never actually had to face. One Republican pollster points out another factor that may distort the results: the majority of the people employed organizations to question voters are women, and men may hesitate to express unfavorable opinions of a woman candidate to them...
Despite the divisions of public and private, day and boarding, city, country and suburb, we were more homogeneous than our brother class at Harvard, and most of us found a starting group of friends right away. The academic system seemed designed to confuse and repel Radcliffe girls especially--a situation that didn't change for most of us, as the minimal advising system only focused on the top students all four years...
...defense of Europe that begins with conventional weapons and then goes up the ladder of nuclear escalation?until it reaches whatever level is necessary to halt Soviet aggression. In today's circumstances this doctrine has a fatal weakness: neither existing nor projected NATO conventional ground forces are adequate to repel a major Soviet
...fool." The hungry herds can be irksome as well as pathetic. The animals knock down fences and eat food meant for livestock. In Montana, the state distributes defenses to ranchers: dried hog blood is sprinkled around haystacks to repel deer, and wooden elk barricades, made by state prison inmates, are being erected. Even more is being done to feed the ravenous animals. Typically, winter kills 5% to 15% of the herds; this season more than half of some herds could die. Colorado, with 550,000 deer and 130,000 elk, may spend $1.6 million for emergency feeding. One morning last...
Using strategic nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union would be "an act of suicide," McNamara wrote, because it would touch off a chain reaction of escalating nuclear exchanges. The likelihood of annihilation makes "first use"-the option of initiating the use of nuclear weapons to repel a Soviet conventional attack-at best a weak stick. "The threat of [first use] has lost all credibility as a deterrent to Soviet conventional aggression," he wrote. "One cannot build a credible deterrent on an incredible action...