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...with Bob Byrd or Jim Wright, it's over." When the President met last week with a delegation of conservative Senators, he listed as his legislative priorities the deployment of Star Wars, a balanced-budget amendment and prohibition of abortion. While that may be an agenda that does not smack of compromise, it is also one that does not hold much promise of achievement...
While they shuffle through the orderly single-file maze of the serving line, we twirl spastically from one tub to another, careening around arms and flailing scoops to finally smack cups onto the counter, then pivot to the register, ducking around cone-wielding scoopers. It's a sport more intricate than basketball, with the interesting complication that the other team is working with the wrong set of rules...
...women cagers entering the final games of the season 10-13 overall and mired smack-dab in the middle of the Ivy pack...
Even by the tongue-twisting standards of the Star Wars lexicon, the newcomer is something of a mouthful: space-based kinetic kill vehicles, or SBKKVs for short. Some scientists refer to them as "smart rocks," since they are basically just projectiles designed to smack into enemy missiles. But they also have the potential of smacking into and perhaps even destroying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. It is the alleged "stunning success" of smart-rock experiments, rather than any progress on the laser and particle- beam zappers usually associated with Star Wars, that has prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...farmers in trouble are not penniless tenants on somebody else's land; they are farm owners, capitalists who risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter how dispiriting. And when the unionists cry out for protection from foreign trade to save their jobs, they run smack into the ire of those very same farmers, who know that tariffs on shoes or steel may mean further market losses for soybeans and wheat...