Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with your official U. N. tour. It is an awful, one-sided display, which was cleared in advance with the Palestinian Liberation Organization's representative to the U. N.--and U. N. officials admitted that they would have delayed the exhibit had he not found it up to snuff...
Wardens will whisper their private gratitude that courts have finally got money out of legislatures, but the budgets have only begun ballooning. Experts estimate that between $6 billion and $10 billion will have to be spent simply to bring existing prisons up to snuff. Yet states surely cannot expect much help from the budget-cutting Federal Government. In short, there is an upper limit to how much imprisonment citizens will underwrite, despite the talk about cracking down on criminals...
...Palestinian question. With the April 25 deadline past, he hopes to get Israel and Egypt to intensify negotiations about autonomy for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His lieutenants hardly sound hopeful that much will be accomplished. There are worries in Washington that the Israelis may snuff out the diminishing hopes for progress in any negotiations by continuing the process of "creeping annexation" until it becomes a fait accompli. The situation, said one U.S. official last week, "requires presidential leadership to ward off the disasters down the road. I really don't know if Ronald Reagan...
...blue skateboards. When the gondoliers leave Venice to become kings of Barataria, they puff themselves up a bit with hats and golf-clubs. Most amusing of all, when Don Alhambra, the normally buffoonish grand inquisitor, finds himself in moments of stress, he takes a snort from a small black snuff box he carries; the box occasionally tips over when someone bumps into the Don, and the powder that spills out is unmistakeably white...
Unlike cancer of the prostate and breast malignancies, lung cancer, which accounts for a fourth of all cancer deaths, often fails to respond to treatment. According to the report, only 10% of its victims survive five years after diagnosis. The report cautions against the use of pipes, cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco, and warns of dangers to nonsmokers exposed to cigarette smoke. "Side- stream" smoke emitted into the air from a smoldering cigarette sometimes includes carcinogens in higher concentrations than those inhaled directly by a smoker. The Surgeon General cites two studies that showed increased risk of lung cancer...