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...intend to do the things you elected me for, but I can't do them all by myself. For every positive change I propose -- in health, in education, the environment, whatever -- powerful interests will stand in our path, and the lobbyists will swarm around each Congressperson like flies. Therefore the only way we will move ahead is if you, my fellow citizens, will get involved and mobilize a mighty force for change. You will have to lobby and petition and otherwise raise a fuss in order to make up with your numbers what you lack now in power and wealth...
...swarm of professors leave the University to join the Clinton administration and serve the nation, many undergraduates are getting started serving the public right here in Cambridge...
...will clog the cinemas. Paramount production chief Sherry Lansing is counting on hit films to breed other hits. "If people can't get into a popular film," she says, "they don't go home; they go to another one instead." But what movie to go to? In this summer swarm, you can't tell the major players without a scorecard. Here's ours...
...disease has also appeared in a cat and a skunk. McCabe said that bats are also good carriers, but the squirrels that swarm in Harvard Yard are fairly safe...
...deportees. The main fundamentalist group, Hamas, for the first time attended a major meeting of the P.L.O. hierarchy in Tunis last Wednesday, while supporters of the two groups in the territories issued an unprecedented joint call for cooperation. Conditions for the deportees continued to deteriorate. The men threatened to swarm across Israeli lines, raising fears of potential slaughter...