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Mondale, on the other hand, had to go into the trenches of the primaries and slug it out, state by state, in a field of eight candidates. It was, said one party official, a spectacle of eight Democrats standing in a circle and shooting at one another. The sight was not always edifying. They all got together for a curiously adolescent debate in Hanover, N.H., where John Glenn accused Mondale of spouting "the same vague gobbledygook of nothing," and Gary Hart zeroed in on Mondale's greatest weakness, his ties to Democratic interest groups-organized labor, Jews, teachers...
...Harvard's holdings were split 66 per cent in stocks, 24 percent in bonds and only 3 percent in cash, which includes money market deposits and notes with a maturity of less than a year. Over the year, Harvard drastically decreased its stock portfolio, dumping a $300 million slug of equities in December and rearranging its equality holdings to includes more medical and small technology companies, the only sectors growing in sleepy market...
...ballistics tests, Martella concluded that three shots had been fired at the Pope and that only the first two came from Agca's Browning pistol. The third bullet, which hit the Pope's left hand and right arm, was fired by Celik, according to the judge. That slug was never found, but a reconstruction of its trajectory showed that it could not have been fired by Agca. Though Agca at first tried to protect Celik, who investigators say was "like a brother" to him, he eventually confessed that Antonov Celik was in the square, though only to create...
...eventually make it possible for history to race ahead--imagine, say, the Palestinian Liberation Organization or the Irish Republican Army secreting nuclear bombs in suitcases. But it is no profundity to note that, for the moment, atom bombs have slowed the possibility of significant world changes to a slug's pace...
Under the heading "Armor" was this classic paragraph: "Scout vehicles dart in, spot the enemy. Report, Call in the heavyweights. Tanks, Big Tanks. Up to 57 tons of steel and 750 horsepower come thundering in on each set of treads, Stop. Fire, Maneuver, Stand your ground, Slug it out, Mighty machines. But battles...