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From the beginning, U.S. power was the shield for the other NATO partners.* The critical provision of the NATO treaty, Article 5, declared, "The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or in North America shall be considered an attack against them all." The U.S. had the responsibility, a key NATO document declared, for "strategic bombing, including the prompt delivery of any and all weapons," a euphemism for atomic bombs...
...malpractice": the duty of a physician to warn former patients of any newly discovered danger in drugs or devices that the doctor prescribed in previous years. The magazine article dredges up a little noted 1978 California Court of Appeals decision called Tresemer vs. Barke, which involved the notorious Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. Within two years after Donna Sue Tresemer had a shield inserted in 1972, researchers were learning that the device could be dangerous, but Dr. Morton Barke never contacted Tresemer to warn her. When she finally did have it removed in 1975, she suffered complications that, her lawyer claimed...
Police estimated the total value of property stolen last week at $13,869 including eight wallets, a set of wind-shield wipers, a 1978 BMW and a black desk phone...
...offensive line play you're taught to be aggressive in everything," he says. "The exception is pass protection, which is passive. You're trying to shield the quarterback and keep your body between him and the lineman...
...have yet another California President with yet another set of plans--including, it would seem, the intensification of civil war in Central America, the sacrifice of the elderly and the marginally employed to provide a shield against uncertainties in the market, and the export of adulterated foodstuffs to the underdeveloped world. The detachment of Four Good Things, its precision and meditative quiet, are new especially powerful, with the power art sometimes has of stinging us awake. In the last lines of the poem, as the narrator is falling asleep his wife describes to him an afternoon spent skiing...