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Meanwhile O'Brien and officials in Washington stew over the harm the disputes have on the higher education-federal relation. The audit problem has "probably been the leading cause of damaging what was heretofore a fairly cordial relationship," Goldberg flatly states...
Menorca-style lobster stew-soup with tomatoes and green peppers. Casas includes a useful section on Spanish wines, which, though insufficiently well known to the rest of the world, have been enthusiastically embraced by Americans in recent years. Some, most notably the Rioja Reservas, can take their place with the world's choicest...
...inconceivable to us that Afghanistan could do any credit to the Soviet Union, let alone "Communism." The Afghans, we told each other, should be left to stew in their own juice. We could never control them, but neither could anyone else. We had our first taste of things to come in 1978. Daoud turned against the Communists who had helped him to power. Not only did he arrest the leaders of the Afghan Communist party, but he planned to execute them. The Afghan Communists were in a desperate position. They consulted the Soviet embassy in Kabul. Moscow quickly confirmed that...
Hunter's Stew...
...substantive signals that he will moderate his course, either as he watched the election returns or in subsequent White House meetings on the budget. He followed the results with his closest advisers and their wives in the family quarters at the White House, the guests balancing plates of beef stew as they watched the network reports. "Hey, look at that!" he said excitedly when an exit poll showed that half of the voters felt the President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than...