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...supply more than 85% of the island's imports, including most of its oil, which Moscow swaps for Cuban sugar at such high valuations that it amounts to an effective annual subsidy worth millions. Putting this arrangement on a free-market basis, as Gorbachev promised to do, will knock out one of the few remaining pillars of the crumbling Cuban economy...
...pointless to knock Me. Critics have shot more arrows at Hepburn than you might find piercing the sides of St. Sebastian. Her voice was usually described in terms reserved for plumbing; her breasts were too small, her neck too scrawny; she wasn't sexy enough to play Scarlett O'Hara; she was labeled "box-office poison." And the toughest critic, Hepburn herself, says, "I was a terrible...
...Crimson has an advantage in that it has a number of women who can knock the ball into the back of the twines--as it proved against the Black Bears...
...higher blood levels of a type of lipoprotein believed to aggravate blockage of coronary arteries. Other research found that elderly black men are twice as likely to develop tuberculosis as white men living under the same socioeconomic conditions. Perhaps, scientists speculated, genetic differences affected the body's ability to knock out the bacteria...
...There will be a lot more premium on retails politics," said Vince Dixon, former chair of Cambridge's Republican party. "And the incumbents are obsessive in doing these things. They touch every hand, they knock on every door...