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...Angeles riots was to blame them on the "failed" Democratic poverty programs of the '60s and '70s. That claim by Marlin Fitzwater was pilloried so mercilessly that President Bush had to backpedal away from his own spokesman. But Fitzwater's comments did not come out of a vacuum. Bush has made public assistance -- specifically welfare -- a constant target of his campaign rhetoric. He compared the dole to a "narcotic" in his State of the Union message and regularly peppers his speeches with vows to "change welfare and make the able-bodied work...
...time Commander Thuot tried to hook his target, the satellite just bounced away. After a day's reflection, the shuttle crew thought of a way to steady the satellite and allow attachment of the bar. The bold proposal involved an unprecedented trio of astronauts working together in the unforgiving vacuum of space. If Thuot, Hieb and Akers had not coordinated their actions exactly, they could have set the satellite wobbling so hard it might have crashed into the orbiter. Had either end of the capture bar hit one of the thrusters on Intelsat's rim, the resulting explosion of rocket...
...baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is a absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...urging more radical solutions. Carol Downer, director of the Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers, based in Los Angeles, travels widely to talk to women's groups about "menstrual extraction," a home-abortion procedure she co-developed in the early 1970s. A suction technique similar to the vacuum-aspiration process that is now the most common form of first-trimester abortion, it requires a 50-mL syringe attached to a flexible plastic tube, which withdraws the contents of the uterus and deposits them into a closed container...
...Fantasy floods in where fact leaves a vacuum," Miss Lettice Douffet declares in the first act of Lettice and Lovage. Lettice Douffet, played by the inimitable Julie Harris, has inherited the love of theater from her actress-mother, and she demonstrates it passionately...