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...think if Adams had received the prize, it could have caused serious problems in the Unionist Party," he said. "I think that most moderate party members in the Unionist community would find it too difficult to swallow...
...only a matter of course before new horizons in economics were explored and charted Demand for Ready-to-Eat Cereal and Its Implications for Price Competition, Merger Analysis, and Valuation of New Brands. Men who are befuddled by female sex lingo can seek counsel in Hard to Swallow: The Form and Meaning of Women's Oral Sex Talk. And it isn't simply a coincidence that The English Patient drove women to chocolate binges and mallomar fetishes. Film-induced Sadness as a Trigger for Disinhibited Eating Among Dieting Women scrutinizes this cultural phenomenon in exhaustive detail. It takes...
...esteemed president continues his journey of repentance and spiritual renewal, his lawyers and aides continue the far more essential task of making excuses. And, if there is anything that the American people swallow more easily than apple pie and apologies, it is excuses. We understand--he was lonely, his appetites got the better of him, the lawsuit was politically motivated, Ken Starr is Satan...
...knew what he had to say, and he was choking out an apology of sorts, though he never used the word. And I was with him. I could only imagine how difficult it was for him. Lord knows, it was painful just to watch. I was almost willing to swallow his claim that his answers in the Jones deposition were "legally accurate." I had hoped he wouldn't try to slice his own words into a meaningless pile of razor-thin legalisms, but I told myself his lawyers had probably demanded it. So I set it aside...
...Kumagai, a leading member of the opposition. Kumagai wants to close bleeders like the Long Term Credit Bank, which holds more than $350 billion in international derivatives contracts. Institutions worldwide are party to those contracts, so the bitter medicine of a closing would not be Japan's alone to swallow. Whatever Obuchi does, most economists predict that Japan's crisis will get worse after O-bon. The festival has its ancient roots in the story of a Buddhist disciple who frees his mother from hell by offering food and prayers at his ancestors' graves. With their economy at stake...