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Eventually, the President's aides will gain that missing Capitol experience. Along the way, of course, they could also succumb to a special Washington vice. Says Angelo: "Thus far, the Carter staff has not demonstrated a thirst for power -but power, after all, can be an acquired taste...
...previously all-male sports like football at public schools. But in Florida, as in other states where the ERA has lost, the phantom issues, not the realities, carried the day. Complains the chairwoman of Georgia's ERA Council, Dotsie Holmes: "The legislators are all too willing to succumb to the hysterical group of women who go down to the statehouse screaming, 'Please don't make me equal!' " So successful was this kind of opposition in Florida that even last-minute telephone calls by Betty Ford, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were...
...million high-risk people vaccinated. By contrast, there were 1,260 deaths per million high-risk people who came down with A/Victoria flu last year. In other words, the chance that an uninoculated person would die from A/Victoria flu was many times greater than that an inoculated person would succumb to Guillain-Barré syndrome. The panel's choice was clear: it advised Califano to make the flu shots available, which he promptly did. At the same time, because of an outbreak in some states of another flu strain, B/Hong Kong (for which a single vaccine is available), Califano announced...
...ultimate disaster flick, on paper instead of in cinemascope, and the entertainment becomes all the more horribly satisfying with the realization that the actors in this script didn't get up and walk away when the camera clicked off. If one is prone to tears or cheers, he will succumb more readily with a reading of Allen's book than a hundred screenings of Earthquake...
...does not wish to encourage. The archconservative Saudis are also at odds with the radical Arab states of Algeria, Iraq and Libya, whose hand would be strengthened by a big oil-price jump. The Iraqi oil minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim, blasted the Saudis for trying to force OPEC to "succumb to pressures from the oil monopolies and imperialist forces...