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Diplomatic Success. Any such negotiations are at best in the distant future. For now, U.S. experts fear that Assad may be so flushed with diplomatic success that he will become increasingly intransigent. "He may try to ride things out until the U.S. is ready to take a more sweeping crack at the problem," observed a State Department Middle East expert. This means that Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy may, for the moment, be dead. Assad has said that Syria will refuse to attend a Geneva conference unless the P.L.O. is also given its own seat; these conditions...
That's Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, talking about one of Hall's cost accounting devices--a palm-print scanner to crack down on dining hall freeloaders...
Another watchman said the change may lead to a "crack-down on some of the less competent watchmen." "The police may want to add some young blood," he added...
David L. Gorski said that the department's plan to crack down on parking violators that was started early in the fall will be intensified next week when new no-parking signs are erected...
...remarks depends heavily on the arched eyebrow and quizzical expression accompanying them-and on a thorough knowledge of the context. Discussing the Penn Central's default on bank loans, he once quipped that the railroad's management "couldn't be equated with Boy Scouts"-a crack that can be fully appreciated only by someone who knows that the line's officers and directors agreed to an out-of-court settlement on shareholders' charges of fiscal mismanagement. Faced once by contradictory accusations from Ralph Nader that Citibank was being too stingy in lending to the poor...