Word: wounds
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...signs of reason amid the turmoil. The country's rulers finally began to re-emerge, but not reason and not humanity. First came Premier Li Peng, 60, the front man for the regime's hard-line faction, giving the lie to rumors that he had suffered a gunshot wound. On TV he praised the soldiers who had killed and maimed to wrest the capital from the demonstrators. "Comrades, you must be exhausted," Li said. "Thank you for your hard work...
...schedule wound up fulfilling the campaign promises of many new council members, and almost no one's as conspicuously as the liberal Lockwood. Together, the two worked out council positions on the confrontational issues of final clubs, a 17-year-old union drive on campus, minority faculty hiring and many other student issues...
...times Vellucci's concerns seemed never toveer from the strictly local--"They're not goingto pay a damn cent in taxes on that building," hetold The Crimson. Nonetheless, Cambridge wound upsetting a nationwide precedent when it organized acommittee to regulate all recombinant DNAresearch...
...Afghanistan, they came through an exchange that has also taken some 50 American Viet Nam veterans to the Soviet Union. The program has achieved profound communions between men who thought of themselves as enemies. In Moscow, after a Soviet vet ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were "in many ways brothers." Said Soviet veteran Sasha Karpenko: "We feel ourselves part of those who died in Viet...
Once upon a time, high-quality watches ticked, had mechanical movements (hand- wound or self-winding) and almost always came from Switzerland. But that was before the onslaught of Japanese quartz watches dealt a near deathblow to the Swiss industry. Now Swiss watchmakers, who survived by converting to quartz technology, plan to turn back the clock...