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...that she was pleased with the swordswomen's showing, particularly since their third-ranked fencer, junior Beth Schwinn, was out with back injuries. "We haven't even come close in the last four years, we've had scores like 14-2 and 15-1," Powell said. "This is their smallest margin of victory since I've been here...
...important is what Reagan did not do. He did not embargo the sale of grain to the Soviets, which could have dealt the U.S.S.R. a real economic blow. The Soviet Union is suffering its third poor harvest in a row (this year's grain crop will be the smallest since 1975), and received 50% of its grain imports from the U.S. in 1981. Blocking the sale would have been politically damaging for Reagan: in April he lifted the grain embargo that Carter had imposed after the Afghanistan invasion; the farm bill passed last month might require the Administration...
...beginning lines of the Tcherepnin recall the first theme of the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4--fluid and passionate. The notes move stepwise, with many minor seconds--the smallest interval between consecutive notes in Western music. After a short figure that resembles a melody from On the Waterfront, the music becomes faster with music reminiscent of the "Sword Dance" from the "Dance of the Young Kurds" in Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet (the same note repeated evenly for 15 times...
...Sergeant of Police, John Sneath has a chance to display his sensationally rich baritone. Sneath is another gifted deadpan comic--at times, a shade too deadpan, perhaps. One wishes he would give his role just the smallest extra measure of hamming-up; as it is, he narrowly misses blending in with his force of policeman choristers altogether...
...Francisco are able to take three-dimensional X rays of the bones, measure the loss of minerals and devise an estrogen dosage sufficient to maintain the resorption balance. Says Kaiser-Permanente Endocrinologist Dr. Bruce Ettinger, who does research at U.C.S.F.: "We've been trying to find the smallest dose of estrogen that will prevent osteoporosis. I think we have the answer...