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...support of 63 members: 43 from his own Likud bloc, 16 from Israel's two right-wing religious parties, former General Ariel Sharon and a colleague who represent the conservative Shlomzion Party, new Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and one independent. Begin had hoped to build a sturdier and broader-based coalition by getting the support of the centrist, 15-member Democratic Movement for Change. Talks between the parties bogged down on foreign policy. To the dismay of DMC Leader Yigael Yadin, Likud refused to soften its stand on the West Bank or on the issue of new Israeli settlements...
...same factor that created the vast increase in air travel: the development of the jet airliner. Flying in a modern jet is ten times as safe as flying in the noisier and slower piston-en-gined aircraft of the mid-'50s. Over the years, airframes have become sturdier and engines not only much more powerful but much more reliable. The FAA, the manufacturers and the airlines poured millions into developing better flight control equipment?sophisticated radars and navigation aids. Military innovations were adopted for commercial use. The FAA steadily tightened flight regulations, prescribing in minute detail how and where planes...
...that's just the beginning. The middle of the ladder, starring juniors Mark Panarese and Ned Bacon at four and five and seniors Ken Ehrlich and Scott Mead at six and seven, is sturdier than Widener. It's also fairly chummy, as three of the four--Panarese being the exception--join Kaplan as graduates of the same national high school...
With the astonished landlord trailing in his wake, the young burglar who had previously robbed the place roamed the apartment complex, suggesting a change of lock here, a sturdier door there and providing other professional advice on security. Another Minneapolis felon recently brought his disabled car to the garage where he had once passed a $123 bad check that landed him in prison. One thief now gets along so well with the shopkeeper he once stole from that he was offered a job in the store...
Fictive Avatars. The phrase fin-de-siècle has long stood for a filleted sort of consciousness: the epicine, misty, dandified transcendentalism and café demonolatry whose sturdier ancestors were men like Baudelaire and Poe. There is a certain truth to this, as evidenced by a work like Jean Delville's Orpheus. A member of the symbolist circle, Delville (1867-1953) was a devoted admirer of Joséphin Péladan, leader of the Rosicrucians in France. Yet it probably does not help us much now to know that the sickly greenish-blue radiance in which Orpheus...