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...tempting a source of kickbacks for police and politicians to really want to stamp it out (cops assigned to the bicho squad are known as "jockeys" because of the good rides they can get). Highly organized, deliciously complex and by its own lights unfailingly honest, the animal game has withstood all manner of crackdowns and shakedowns, grown into a $500 million-a-year business that employs roughly 1% of the nation's total working force. Millions of Brazilians play it every day, and almost all have at least a nodding acquaintance with their local bicheiros...
...Richard M. Nixon, who has withstood the mudslings and arrows of outrageous fortune and remains No. 1 choice to lead rank-and-file Republicans...
Orange Scintilla. A few pinpoints of light shone through the all-enveloping shroud. Many areas of Vermont, with nearly 30 individual utility companies, withstood the tide. New Hampshire went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...
Eliot pulled its goalie out and used a desperation 11-man attack in the fourth quarter, but the Lowell defense, led by Captain Curt Greene and halfbacks Charlie Martin and Pete Johnson, withstood the assault...
...vertical position. The sudden jolt induces symptoms of orthostatic hypotension. The doctors wanted to see how long it took for the astronauts' systems to recover from the jolt, and to compare this with the length of time it took in preflight tests. Time after time, the astronauts withstood the test without blacking out. After only five tests, their recovery rates had returned to normal...