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...also came away with a deeper understanding of the problems that exist," she said, referring to the "deep scars left on the Israelis" from their 30-year struggle to maintain their nation's sovereignty. During this time the Israelis were confronted with repeated unkept promises and commitments she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holtzman Discusses Peace for Israel, Criticizes Carter's Efforts in Mideast | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...first half statistics would have been better left unkept, as they revealed the futility of attempting to play football on a day reserved for ducks. Jim Kubacki had total offensive statistics of 37 yards, minus six rushing, which just about sums...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: BIG RED STUNS HARVARD, 9-3 | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

...status a campaign advantage. "I have been accused of being an outsider," he says. "I plead guilty. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans are also outsiders. We are not going to get changes by simply shifting around the same groups of insiders, the same tired old rhetoric, the same unkept promises and the same divisive appeals to one party, one faction, one section of the country, one race or religion or one interest group. The insiders have had their chances and they have not delivered. Their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jimmy Carter: Not Just Peanuts | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...deaths, and the ensuing inquest, jolted the Canadian medical community. Drouin now faces an investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, which has the power to revoke medical licenses. After hearing hospital personnel tell about missing reports and erroneous or unkept records, the coroner's jury cited the Montfort Hospital for a "considerable lack of liaison between the various departments" and urged it to adopt better administrative practices. It also heard testimony about other patients' postoperative problems (one woman told of an overwhelming though inexplicable desire to eat mud) which raised new doubts about weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dead End | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...excessive" (meaning horizontal and unconscious), parades at intermission. She listens with equal stolidity to Scheherezade and Mahler's Sixth Symphony, gazes transfixed at the flashing brass, and probably harbors an unbreakable, unreflective, reactionary, insensate detestation of all "modern music" which neither celebrates horses and streams, nor revels in unkept legions of defeaning brass. Henry James exquisitely captures this mood of pasteurized voraciousness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Musical Avant-Garde | 5/15/1969 | See Source »

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