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...Republican party is strong enough to withstand a Reagan retirement precisely because any moderate, consensus-minded Republican will be able to pass himself off as less hackneyed and retro than the likely Democratic nominee Mondale...
Goodman steeled himself by thinking daily about "the P.O.W. experience that I had been trained to withstand...
Today's union leaders are angry and scared. They feel that their ultimate weapon, the strike, has lost its effectiveness. As William Winpisinger, the feisty president of the Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union, points out, "The companies have shown a remarkable ability to withstand strikes." Leaders also fear that they may lose their own jobs to more militant members if they do not stand up to management. But so far, Big Labor has not yet developed a plan to reverse its losses. Laments Winpisinger: "We are going to get beat up worse and worse...
Under the bill, no person under 21 years of age would be allowed electroshock therapy, and all those opting for treatment would undergo a seven-point health examination insuring the patient's ability to withstand the treatment...
...question of why the doomed 747 strayed so disastrously into Soviet territory, and also on the bitter U.S.-Soviet quarrel over who was at fault. The two black boxes-actually, they are bright orange-are small (5 in. by 9 in. by 15 in.) but heavily armored to withstand explosion, heat and pressure. Their tapes of conversations in the airliner's cockpit could show whether the crew had any warning before a Soviet Su-15 interceptor knocked Flight 007 out of the sky, killing all 269 aboard. For the U.S., retrieval of the boxes could mean the opportunity...