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Meanwhile, Hussein was finding his own reasons for renewing links with Cairo. Eternally suspicious of Syria's Assad, he grew increasingly alarmed as Syria attempted to supplant Egypt as the most influential Arab power. Hussein was especially angered by what he considered to be Syria's attempt to gain control of the movement for Palestinian nationalism. In May 1983, Damascus fueled the fires of revolt within the Palestine Liberation Organization against its leader, Yasser Arafat. Then last November, Syria encouraged Palestinian rebels to besiege Arafat in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli. The P.L.O. chief finally escaped...
...years ago the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures began searching for new teaching strategies to supplant the traditional regimen of grammar drills and textbook exercises...
...Medicare but a "layering of bene fits according to your income." The poor, in fact, are regularly euphemized into invisibility by being given new names such as "disadvantaged." One of the oddities of euphemisms, though, is that they tend to reacquire the unpleasant connotations of the words they supplant, like a facelift that begins to sag, and so they have to be periodically replaced. The world's poor nations have changed over the years from underdeveloped nations to developing nations to emerging nations...
...when crib death is most likely to occur, as if the baby doesn't know whether to be reflexive or cognitive. Suppose a child gets into a compromising situation where it has lost the reflex and has not acquired the learned behavior that has to come in to supplant the lost reflex." Lipsitt hopes to devise a specific test that will pinpoint those few children who may be in jeopardy...
...support the almost romantic anti-technology stand of the party, which effectively used rallies and other mass-appeal tactics to block the construction of nuclear energy plants between 1977 and 1981. Conservation too remains a cornerstone of the Greens' projected "renaissance", in which windmills and solar power would supplant current "dirty" energy sources...