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...Switzerland never joined before? When the organization first came to Geneva in 1946, postwar fear of communism was rife and the cautious Swiss decided to stay outside. In a 1986 referendum, 76% of voters rejected membership; distrust of the Soviets, as well as political squabbles between superpowers, was blamed for the defeat. Today, Nordmann says, "the international environment is different and the U.N is different. We can no longer hide behind the shield of neutrality...
...question about what to do with DCIS is also rife with extenuating factors. If DCIS never left the breast ducts, physicians could safely ignore it. No one knows for sure, but at least one study suggests that perhaps 40% of DCIS lesions will develop into invasive tumors that, if left untreated, could eventually prove fatal. That means that maybe 60% of DCIS cases never threaten a woman's health--and therefore these growths do not need to be removed...
...Elizabeth, you photograph too well to be depressed,” writes one fan on an Internet message board that is dedicated to her work, but is rife with love poetry and depression confessions...
...Thus do supply and demand meet again, with the skittish consumer setting some very tough terms. The post-Christmas period has always been rife with discounts, as retailers look to unload the last of their leftover winter inventory on shoppers returning unwearable sweaters for store credit. This year the price cuts will go all the way to the bone and beyond, and there are hopes that the bargains (getting plenty of free publicity from economics writers) will draw enough mall traffic to get the job done...
...Rumors of extortion rackets and political manipulation are rife and any justice meted out is arbitrary. On a recent rainy night in Jakarta, hundreds of adherents to one of the most powerful fundamentalist groups, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), cram into trucks and minivans and head for a slum on the west side of the city. Men are huddled under a blue tent playing ceki, a kind of poker. They scatter as the squad, brandishing clubs and machetes, marches in. But as FPI members smash tables and chairs and then start pulling down the tents, some locals turn and jeer...