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Unfriendly Barriers. Europe and Japan can afford to do a lot of widening. Their economies have now become so robust-thanks in large part to $50 billion in U.S. aid during the postwar era-that they can comfortably scrap many anachronistic tariffs, quotas and excise taxes against U.S. imports. Equally important, the foreigners-notably the affluent French and Germans-could well afford to step up greatly their own foreign aid and thereby take some of the financial burden of the underdeveloped countries...
...could catch a breeze or a mist; a storm demanded something more robust. The oils to which Marin turned retained the fluidity of his watercolors, but they often achieved a deeper intensity...
...growing amount of this work which led President Charles W. Eliot 1853 to talk more and more in his closing years in office of the need for a "robust" dean, rather than a spokesman-figurehead, and since that time, the problem has always been, as it is now, just how much power to give the dean...
...rural Berkshire to London's Hospital for Sick Children whooshed a police-escorted ambulance bearing the football captain and choir leader of Britain's Cheam School: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 13. Following a post-midnight appendectomy, the robust Charles recuperated rapidly, was expected to be sprung this week from the TV-equipped private room for which the royal family, which does not take-advantage of the National Health Service, was paying...
...hello-if he does. This is not a social event. It's a challenge." But World Record Holder O'Brien, his plane flight delayed by bad weather, showed up late, and Gubner had to content himself with dueling a ghost. This seemed stimulus enough for Gubner, a robust 260 lbs. at 19. He tossed the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 10¼ in., shattered O'Brien's mark...