Word: blowing
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...strikes dealt a serious blow to the economy, Gorbachev said, but he reassured his fellow Soviets that "our perestroika will give results despite the tests we are undergoing...
...Palestinian residents from participating in the elections. The Bush Administration signaled its irritation by reviving talk of an international peace conference, an option repellent to Shamir. In a New York Times interview, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the Likud stipulations a "deadly blow," but he did not torpedo the plan...
Pierce's fraying reputation suffered a more serious blow last week, when one of his former top aides implicated him directly in the scandal. Though Pierce had told a House subcommittee last May that he had never been personally involved in HUD program grants, Shirley McVay Wiseman told the panel that her boss had directly ordered her to approve $16 million in federal subsidies for a housing project in Durham, N.C., proposed by Pierce's former law partner. She refused, she said, so Pierce signed the papers...
Last month a federal judge denied the Yorks' request for a preliminary injunction against the institute and ordered that the case be tried by a jury in the fall. The decision was a blow to the Yorks, for whom time is critical. Risa is 39, and the spontaneous abortion rate for in vitro implants increases dramatically in women beyond the age of 40. Also, the longest recorded freezing of an embryo that was later successfully implanted is 28 months; the Yorks' embryo has been in a cryogenic state for 24 months...
...Afrikaaner diaspora by about one-half. As Riggs tells Murtaugh, "We're back! We're bad! You're black! I'm mad!" Mad to the max. Riggs may not know how to spell apartheid, but he knows whom he hates. He even knows how to strike a blow for American property values. When the Boers perforate his beachside shack, Riggs finds appropriate recourse. He kills their house...