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...provides a glimmer of hope for Ulster moderates who want to give the British government plan of having both Catholics and Protestants share provincial political power a chance to work. By and large, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army failed in its efforts to get voters to "Spoil Your Vote and Smash the System," as one of the Proves' newspaper...
...which virtually everything is perishable, even state secrets spoil quickly. Today's diplomatic maneuver becomes the substance of next year's memoirs; the latest weapon is soon duplicated (or stolen) by the enemy, or becomes obsolete. It is evident that a government has the right to require security clearances of some of its employees; it may even have the right, as some argue, to run checks on a few of its former employees for the rest of their lives, a sort of "distrust without prejudice" applying to individuals who had access to information of grave national concern...
...space laboratory finally succeeded, the Skylab 1 astronauts last week settled down to work in their cavernous home in the sky. They made scientific observations of the earth and sun, performed biomedical tests on themselves, and even feasted on some of the foods that NASA had feared would spoil in Skylab's scorching temperatures. The outlook seemed bright. Asked whether they expected to remain aloft for a full 28-day mission, Commander Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr. replied unhesitatingly: "You betcha...
...impossible to spoil porridge by adding too much butter...
...confidence is justified. So far, the Sabrinas have lost more than they have won and to some teams that Harvard could handle easily. In short, it doesn't look like Amherst will spoil Harvard's chances for second-place honors in the Ivy League...