Word: withstands
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...charges focused on civil rights, the burden on participants is greater. The result will be momentous, but the nation is really watching for what comes after. As defense attorney Ira Saltzman challenged jurors last week in a closing statement, "Your verdict might result in some . . . something. Can you withstand that pressure...
Another supply caravan was already being organized. It could reach the town this week, but that may be too late. The lightly armed Bosnian-army defenders are not strong enough to withstand a determined Serbian onslaught. Said a U.N. official: "It's not a matter of whether Srebrenica will fall, but when...
...earth may move, little rabbit, but now quake-zone residents can sleep safely, according to Hollywood special-effects designer Jon Ward. He has developed the "Los Angeles Earthquake Bed." Built of steel tubing and 16- gauge steel mesh, the 600-lb. bed, he says, can even withstand a collapsing roof. Peace of mind costs...
Speculation about adultery, love affairs, "Dianagate," "Camillagate" -- the headlines are hurricanes buffeting a fragile, archaic institution that may not be able to withstand the impact. Each new revelation elicits more serious calls for the monarchy to be taxed, for a cut in its numbers who are paid a government stipend, and -- to entertain the unthinkable -- for the whole institution to be abolished. Even knowledgeable observers are writing off Charles and Diana as the next King and Queen. How could they take coronation vows, given their farce of a marriage, she possibly too high-strung to be Queen Consort, he exposed...
ATTORNEYS WHO CONTEND THAT DEMOCRATIC PATRIARCH CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, is too ill to stand trial for his alleged role in the B.C.C.I. scandal could well be right. When Clifford sought heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors of a trial could cause a fatal...