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...Right to ensure its victory. They could not bring themselves to support a coalition of bitter enemies engaged in fierce mutual recriminations and incapable of agreeing on a platform. Even though the French youth from 18 to 21 voted for the first time, the Left did a shade worse than in the Mitterrand-Giscard duel of 1974. And so, the C.P. is back in the political ghetto...
...glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead). New techniques, such as sandblasting, silk-screen painting, laminating and the use of epoxy resins, enable artists to achieve subtle tactile and visual effects. Even so, stained glass demands infinite patience; a single lamp shade may be composed of 2,400 meticulously assembled pieces...
...only as a fond bow to the city's tradition, but also to cut energy use by 15% to 20%. And he estimates that the new building will cost no more, and offer tenants greater variety, than conventional offices. Besides sliding French windows, there will be balconies that provide shade, individually controlled lighting known in trade parlance as "task lighting," and heat pumps that transfer hot air to chilly spots and vice versa. Tenants who prefer air-conditioning in hermetically sealed offices can create that environment by using the heat pumps...
...Jolson slam dunks kept Harvard down at 61-53, but Hooft suddenly came alive with 19 second-half tallies as the Crimson crept back to within two, 65-63. It was only the shade of Dartmouth, with two full-court Eli passes breaking the game open again, and the Crimson fell to 10-15, while Yale upped their Ivy slate to 3-10, and 8-15 overall...
...Costa Rica's seventh peaceful presidential race in the past 25 years, an underdog candidate scored a stunning upset against the dominant party. San Jose Economist Rodrigo Carazo, 51, running under the banner of the center-left Unity Party, managed to snare a shade more than 50% of the 755,000 votes cast; he edged out Luis Alberto Monge, the candi date of the long-ruling National Liberation Party, who got just under...