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...legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned. In a closet they find a cowering burglar trying to stanch the flow of blood from his mutilated hand...
...shakiest airlines is TWA, which expects to lose $125 million during the first three months of 1986. Buying Ozark Air Lines is part of an aggressive plan to stanch that red ink. The merger could make TWA, which is best known as an overseas carrier, stronger domestically...
...Reagan Administration's attempts to stanch the flow of technology to the Soviet Union, primarily directed at the shipment of computers, microelectronics and software, have also involved efforts to prevent publication or open discussion of certain unclassified technical research -- a policy that has angered many scientists. Yet there is growing evidence to , support Washington's concern. In an exclusive interview with TIME's Frank Melville in London, a former officer in the GRU, the Kremlin's military intelligence agency, has affirmed the fact that acquiring American high technology is the agency's No. 1 priority. Other comments of this recent...
...commercialization" of college sports, Kelly said, "has eroded many of the positive values that come with athletic programs." To stanch the flow of under-the-table money to collegiate athletes, the N.C.A.A. Presidents' Commission voted last week to urge that athletic department budgets be overseen by college administrators. Easy attitudes toward drugs, betting and corner cutting to make big-time money call for hard lessons. They should reverberate beyond Tulane...
Initially, the ostensible reason for funding the contras was to stanch the flow of aid that Nicaragua supplied to rebels in El Salvador. Now the objectives are diffuse: by keeping the Sandinistas off balance, the insurrection may soften them up to make political concessions. Yet concessions require serious negotiations and in January, Washington suspended the talks that U.S. and Nicaraguan officials had been having in Mexico since last June. The State Department is nevertheless still hopeful about persuading Congress to subsidize the contras. "Motley's testimony was only our first shot," said one official. "We have not yet begun...