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...autobiography, Simon recalls her father's efforts to thwart her own intellectual curiosity. Here she writes with scarcely disguised bitterness of one promising Gonzaga daughter: "Her impressive knowledge of Virgil, every line, didn't matter, nor did her command of Greek, and so what if she could explain the propositions of Euclid? Her vocation was marriage...
...other economic benefits. There is particular pressure in Congress to punish Panama and Mexico. This week President Reagan is expected to decertify Panama. Mexico, however, will probably receive only warnings and be exempted from economic sanctions on the ground that greater punishment might tend to destabilize it and thus thwart U.S. security interests...
...sermon taped shortly before the scandal broke, Swaggart pleaded with his herd to send more money, claiming that Bakker's fall from grace was causing a drain on funds. He warned that Satan would find ways to thwart God's work. Obviously, Swaggart pays God's salary and He recently demanded a raise. But the Bakker sex scandal did not stop the flow of postal trucks arriving every day at Swaggart's complex, which has its very own zip code...
...object of the exercise was not to come up with the best theoretical plan for eliminating the deficit, taking no account of the political obstacles that almost invariably thwart Congress and the White House. Rather, the purpose was to demonstrate that achieving a balanced budget necessarily involves broad- based sacrifices that may be unpleasant but are hardly catastrophic...
Among other revolutions in nomenclature was Vellucci's move to thwart conservative Harvard political scientists who referred to their institution as the Harvard School of Government. He won the Council's support to change Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy Street--forcing the K-School to put the name of the late president on its stationery, like...