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...AGREEMENT fails miserably because it is so ambiguous. As a statement issued by the Australian delegation suggests, "In most if not all the important issues, the words are vague, ambiguous and shrink from firm commitments and [consequently the agreement is] little more than a package of words that offer to all of us the license of interpretation...
Paul Cowan's An Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish Legacy does not shrink from these deep-seated questions as it chronicles the author's voyage of self-discovery, which took him searching through the late 60s civil rights movements, the Catholic left, and a Peace Corps mission to Ecuador before landing him in a neighborhood synagogue on New York City's West Side. Cowan, for many years a reporter for the Village Voice, makes no bones about the anxiety and ambivalence he faced after starting to flirt in earnest with his Jewish roofs, and with the possibility of resuming...
...Packages designed to show evidence of tampering will be the wave of the future." The management-consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, which has been studying the problem, advocates the wider application of several safety methods now used on some grocery products. They include the tight plastic bands or shrink wraps that cover the cap and neck of some syrup and sauce bottles, vacuum seals like those on instant-coffee jars, and baby-food "pop tops" that bulge visibly once opened. The single most effective form of protection for drugs, according to the Little research, would be blister packages like...
...offer undergarments for women. The company claims that the move is logical because women are already loyal to the brand since they buy at least 70% of the shorts worn by their husbands or sons. Like men's briefs, Jockey For Her panties will be made of no-shrink cotton. None of that lacy, silky stuff. Jockey President Howard Cooley says the product will be "very feminine, even if it's not highly sensual...
...charming and frank, and also a very strong and courageous leader who would not shrink from making difficult political decisions. He was extraordinarily inclined toward boldness and seemed impatient with those more timid or cautious. I formed an immediate impression that our friendship could be very significant for both of us and that the prospects for peace in his troubled region might not be dead...