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...historic events of this type are symbolic. Scientists knew long before they put a man on the moon that it would be possible. Why not scrap the project after the blueprints for the spacecraft and the mission plan had been written and all the key calculations had been completed? In part, it is because one cannot know with certainty whether something is possible until it has been done. Theory stands upon tenuous soil where there are not facts to back...
...Crimson actually pounded out more hits in the nightcap--11, versus 10 in the opener-but its infield committed two costly errors in the eighth inning to help Army scrap...
...sufficient for now. Additionally, he is a dedicated family man and the sort of friend you can count on for a favor or a good laugh. He is truly a role model and only the coldest of hearts would let him go. Sell the John Harvard statue for scrap metal if need be, but keep Joe Hickey...
...Philip Morris and No. 2 Reynolds command a 72% share of the $45 billion U.S. tobacco industry. Cynics noted that demand for cigarettes is inelastic--the companies would just force nicotine junkies to cough up an additional 25 cents a pack, which now averages $1.80. The industry would also scrap its outdoor advertising and remove human and human-like figures from remaining ads, thereby laying to rest the images of the Marlboro Man and Joe Camel...
Well, maybe not always. Nobody thinks it will be possible to scrap managed care and go back to total reliance on the old fee-for-service system. But HMO foes do think they can make the managed-care plans behave better, by methods as varied as the opponents themselves...