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When Midwesterners did get around to talking about Carter, most of them sounded upbeat. Said Donald Percy, a vice president at the University of Wisconsin: "Our mood now is one of quiet expectancy." Still, as Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have...
...clothes. Readers objected, and he was fired a year later, in 1972. As a freelancer before joining Murdoch in 1974, Brady wrote for New York and even played third base on the magazine's softball team-a connection that he now sees as valuable in establishing "a reservoir of good will...
Humanity's experience with illness began millenniums ago when microparasites-bacteria and viruses-evolved into the same ecological niche as man. Disease organisms presented few problems as long as humans were few and their communities small; pathogenic, or disease-causing, microbes can flourish only in a large human reservoir. But population growth and the development of cities provided a perfect breeding ground for epidemic illness. Outbreaks of various kinds killed Babylonians and Egyptians, stalked the streets of ancient China...
...southern Africa, we have the trust of the Rhodesian government, the South African government, the front-line nations. We have a reservoir of support in the black African nations. If [the U.S.] puts a new player in the game -I'm not sure that we can keep that momentum going which is so critical...
...vessels feeding that excised section of small intestine. He then led the conduit to a small opening in Humphrey's skin that the surgical team had created just to the right of the navel. There, an external, flat plastic bag was attached (with glue), thus providing a urine reservoir that can be emptied at will...