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...ever consider the fact that the Russians would break his team's press? It's always nice to have a team that can play great defense. But if you're going to have a great defensive team, you should complement it with some outside shooters. Two or three would have sufficed. Did Thompson ever consider the possibility that his only legitimate outside shooter, Hershey Hawkins, might go cold or get hurt...
...hard-running duo of tailback Kevin Smellie and fullback David Mitchell complement the passing attack. Both are tough, short-yardage runners. Smellie has 115 yards (on 33 carries) in the first two games, and Mitchell has added 111 yards on 24 carries (4.6 yards per carry...
...themes for Siegfried's sword and Wotan's spear, for renunciation of love and for its redemption. Artfully intertwined, they underpin Wagner's own libretto, based on the sagas of Norse and Germanic legend. In presenting what the composer called a "stage-festival play," Kupfer found physical leitmotivs to complement the musical ones and give his production a visual as well as a musical unity. Characters do not just stand and sing; they stand and deliver, fighting with fury or embracing with abandon, falling down faint in ecstasy. < As Wotan (Bass John Tomlinson) bids a sorrowing farewell to Brunnhilde (Soprano...
...encounter roving scavenger cells called phagocytes, which simply engulf and digest them. These defenders -- monocytes, neutrophils and macrophages -- secrete substances that dilate nearby blood vessels and make them more permeable, enabling even more defenders to get from the bloodstream to the infection site. Other proteins, those belonging to the complement system, aid in this process...
...last. I shall do my best to hasten the start of negotiations on conventional weapons in Europe. I shall remind others that though security is based on deterrence, that does not mean either constant overbidding or redundancy, and that a reduction of the arms race is the logical complement of this strategy...