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...stronger one's real position, the less one needs to rub in the other side's discomfiture. It is rarely wise to inflame a set-back with an insult. An important aspect of the art of diplomacy consists of doing what is necessary without producing extraneous motives for retaliation, leaving open the option of later cooperation...
...hard work and intensity have approved to rub off on her players. The team has won several one-point games, including an ever-time victory against Wellesely in which the Cagers were down 15 points in their first half. "We sever give up," Hogan says. "I coach that way, and they play that...
...costs $250. The Viper, if Congress does not shoot it down, is expected to cost $1,000 each. Says an Administration defense expert: "It is painfully apparent that the Viper is not working. But once a service gets strongly committed to a program, it is a tough job to rub...
...limousine the other day with a Republican Senator and drawled, "I want to help the President." Translation: there is a majority forming in Congress, and perhaps the nation, that believes that Ronald Reagan must begin to cut his losses and start to make some deals. And there is the rub...
...raison d'etre of intellectual diversity. Administrators maintain the preferential lottery largely in the name of the traditions that have grown up around individual Houses. In doing so, though, they subvert a broader tradition: what Epps calls President Lowell's "notion that people from different social classes were to rub shoulders together...