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...inclination in Washington has been to downplay both halves of the Soviet ultimatum. According to this attitude, the U.S.S.R.'s military countermeasures will turn out to be more political bark than military bite. As for a Soviet walkout in Geneva, that would be crazy, say many American officials. The Soviets would stomp out of the talks looking like the spoilers. That would put the lie to their advertisements for themselves as infinitely patient good guys in the eyes of Europe...
...youth. In Rohmer's world, the adults refuse to accept reality, and gradually the children get swept into an adult world where people manipulate others in order to have a good time. These adults constantly wag their tongues in search of happiness and usually get so carried away they bite their tongues...
...England, California and sections of the South, however, heavy rains have left pools of standing water in which the larvae of mosquitoes have flourished. Entomologist Jon Turmel of the Vermont department of agriculture cites a simple personal test. He rolls up a sleeve and lets the mosquitoes bite. Usually, he gets about 20 bites a minute. This year the bite rate has zoomed to about 35 a minute...
...Tory government should move quickly to spur further denationalization as it has with the mammoth British Telecom--reorganize the stifling tax system to encourage competition and entreprencurism, and firm up relations with the Common Market and Europe, not to mention South America. Only if Thatcher adds bite to her bark will the electorate be able to judge her on her performance instead of her personality...
Chief Justice Warren Burger has often complained about the overburdening of the nation's courts. They are being choked, he once observed, because "people tend to be less satisfied with one round of litigation and are demanding a second bite at the apple." The apple is now biting back. In two major decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to permit federal employees to bring damage suits against their superiors for violations of constitutional rights. In a third case, the court assessed a party for filing a frivolous appeal after repeated failures in lower courts...