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...realized that resistance was useless and, in any case, we no longer had the strength. The KGB agents went outside. We kissed. Tears came to my eyes. Lusia said bitterly, "And on Tanya's anniversary...
...Times, political columnist Leonid Mlechin wrote, "Cooler heads will not ignore the will of the Lithuanian voters and will start shaping up a mechanism of cooperation with Vilnius. Any option for resolving this problem with force will strengthen the position of those in the republics who believe it is useless to try to reach an agreement with Moscow...
...space last week, the fledgling U.S. commercial launch business may have been set adrift with it. Owned by Intelsat, a Washington-based consortium of 118 countries, , the satellite, which was to handle phone calls and television transmissions, failed to separate on schedule from its booster and tumbled into a useless low orbit. Though Intelsat technicians managed to lift it a bit higher, the five- ton payload nonetheless seemed destined to plunge back to earth within a few months, unless NASA can arrange a rescue by the space shuttle...
Marino also contended that plot summary in a review is useless, and discussing the themes and intentions of a play is gratuitous. But describing the content of a play makes a review coherent, and what is sometimes viewed as "plot summary" are often important illustrative details...
...most unwanted breed. One such mammoth is the 24,000-acre Banning-Lewis Ranch, situated just outside vastly overbuilt Colorado Springs. A developer paid $200 million for the parcel in the mid-1980s as the future site of several planned communities, but now the land is virtually useless because the city has de-annexed it. As a result, anyone who wishes to develop the former ranch can no longer count on municipally priced water...