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...this were new to him and Chou had not been reporting daily. "He started it," answered Chou, "but others have caught up." Mao went along cheerfully with Chou's implication that the Soviets were now the principal threat, but he discouraged any undue sense of danger that might tempt accommodation. The Soviets' courage, he said, did not match their ambitions, as demonstrated during the Cuban missile crisis and America's alert during the previous month's Mideast war. He illustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his enlustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders...
Harvard made one last desperate at tempt to even the score, but an overanxious squad drove the ball out of bounds...
...addicted to junk food; what better way to teach them good nutrition than to tempt them by low prices to eat a well-balanced lunch? That rationale, observes the deputy superintendent of one affluent Michigan school district, is part of a longtime trend to view the schools as social agencies. Says the educator: "We began just teaching them how to read and write. Then came athletic programs because parents couldn't be bothered to teach their kids how to run and jump. Now we are teaching them how to drive cars and setting up sex-education programs to teach...
...cutoff line for totally free lunches drops to $10,990 from the $11,520 scheduled under the old law. Furthermore, the new legislation urges schools not to notify parents of the changes in eligibility rules for free lunches when asking them to report their incomes, in order not to tempt them to understate their earnings...
...dreary (though revealing) marketing or political records. But about 150 are literary, including myths, epic narratives, hymns to deities, rituals, collections of proverbs, and incantations against everything from demons to scorpions. Some of Ebla's 500 deities had the same names as the ones which were later to tempt the Israelites in Canaan, notably Baal...