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...course, fellow Dust Bowl refugees. Both Woody and the viewer are seeing the hidden, dark side of the American dream--the poverty and misery of the unemployed masses contrasts starkly with the affluence of the epicureans and of the priest who refuses him charity on the ground it will weaken Woody's spirit...
Stendahl, who agrees that the cut will weaken the program he helped to start, said last week that it was chosen merely because the untenured coordinator's contract happened to end this year, in a period of financial difficulties...
Tests did not find organic, or carbon-based, molecules in the Martian soil. Terrestrial soil is laden with such molecules, which are the remains of living organisms. But scientists agree that this negative finding does not necessarily weaken the case for Martian biology. There may simply have been too few of these molecules in the soil to be detected by the gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer designed to look for them. The picture is complicated by the biology tests run at the second Mars landing site. In the gas exchange test, the soil released substantially less oxygen than the sample...
...dock only at high tide. Delays can mean the ship sits on her bottom plates in shallow water before the draft can be lightened sufficiently. Such structural strains are repeated and severe, and, coupled with the tremendous rate of corrosion, they shorten the life of the vessels and constantly weaken them...
...Weakened Ally. Goenka and Irani are pursuing their struggles independent of each other, unwilling to risk charges of conspiracy. They do share a determination to hang on as long as they can. Yet the Prime Minister last month pushed a constitutional amendment through Parliament that will, when it takes effect this week, weaken the publishers' major ally, the judiciary...