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...Once again the possibility of logic and necessary solutions are being ruined," Walesa said in the taped statements. "They are sinking our country into ruin...
While his amendment is fanciful, his reasoning is not. USX complains about corporate raiders "serving only their self-interest at the expense of...the community." One might ask, then, what exactly motivated USX--if not self-interest at the expense of the community--to ruin hundreds of families in Gary, West Virginia, by suddenly laying off every single worker...
...P.P.D. to rejoin forces with the Reunification Democratic Party. That party's leader, Kim Young Sam, 60, stepped down in a similar gesture last month. With elections for the 299-seat National Assembly scheduled for April 26, the P.P.D. chief said he did not want to ruin the "last chance" to unite those opposed to President...
...fifth year. Then I summoned my sons and the sons of my sons and the wives of all of us and their daughters, and we gathered together and went . . . to see the Lord of Heaven, to the God most high, to the great holy one, who saved us from ruin." The extended use of the first person represents a noteworthy departure from standard biblical texts, which are usually written in the third person with brief quotations sprinkled throughout. The style of the Genesis Apocryphon, Charlesworth insists, "is not a literary device to make the action more direct. It reflects...
Before they testified, however, Walsh tried to defuse their arguments with what Turk called "McCarthyite smear tactics." Walsh accused them of making illegal political contributions and threatened them with a lawsuit for "trying to ruin...