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...four years. But Mondale must avoid the fate of his former running mate, Jimmy Carter. In 1980 Carter scored more substantive points than Reagan, but the former actor won the debate on tone and style-and the election shortly thereafter. Mondale, though warm and funny in private, is stiff on television; while Reagan grins easily and naturally, Mondale sometimes bares his teeth like the runner-up in a beauty contest...
...Khushwant Singh. But Mrs. Gandhi apparently felt she had no choice but to attack. Bhindranwale and his followers had stockpiled guns, rifles, antitank missiles, rocket launchers, hand grenades and mortars inside the temple, in grim contrast to the shrine's jewel-like chambers and cupolas. The defenders' stiff resistance ended in slaughter: 259 Sikhs and 59 soldiers killed, an additional 90 Sikhs and 110 soldiers wounded. Unofficial figures placed the dead at more than a thousand...
...sponsored research offers. While most of the 2000 contracts per year flow through the office smoothly--particularly those coming from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Health (NIH)--about 25 a year must be renegotiated to meet the Faculty of Arts and Science's relatively stiff policy on acceptances...
...last days of the Nixon Administration, for example, or during the time when Lyndon Johnson was beleaguered there. Why be concerned that a woman might, in the throes of some monthly lunacy, want to nuke Leningrad? Of more concern might be a man in the White House with six stiff Scotches in him. The so-called premenstrual syndrome (depression, anger, in some rare cases, violence, around the time of menstruation) has been used successfully as a defense in a couple of murder trials in England, and that reawakened a flicker or two of what is, in fact, a bigoted canard...
Riboud and his company, however, now face stiff challenges. The drop in oil prices has pared Schlumberger's profits, and the firm is still struggling to digest its 1979 acquisition of Fairchild Camera & Instrument, an ailing semiconductor maker. Riboud, who has been granted the right to stay on beyond 65, may face his toughest test when he finally steps down. Says he: "To leave Schlumberger would be like trying to shake an oyster off a rock...