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...thrust, however, Moscow made every public pose of trying to check the fighting. Yet some U.S. analysts speculated that the Russians might have been playing a clever double role: instructing their advisers with the Syrian army to let the tanks roll, but to appear as the peace saver by pulling them back if they failed. It was not necessarily that the Soviets wanted Hussein to fall, but rather that they did not want the guerrillas crushed. It appeared that the Russians in the end became more concerned with restoring a measure of stability than making minor gains in influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Mid East: Search for Stability | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...Time-Saver...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Report of Fainsod Group Suggests Faculty Council | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...anarchy, the university radicals have half seriously given the world "anticipatory Communism," which means to steal. The New Left, though, still has a long way to go before it can equal the euphemism-creating ability of Government officials. Who else but a Washington economist would invent the phrase "negative saver" to describe someone who spends more money than he makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE EUPHEMISM: TELLING IT LIKE IT ISN'T | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...local tax burden. Municipal real estate taxes--until now the chief source of welfare funds--could be eased or the money put to other uses. For cities like Boston with huge tax rates and high welfare costs, the state's assumption of these costs would be a life-saver...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Daring Days Across the River | 1/17/1968 | See Source »

Bell does have a first line of veterans Bob McCauseland, Eric Porter, and Ed McCarty which should give Harvard plenty to worry about. And Canadian goalie Ken Leu, who saw some action last winter, is the best kick-saver in the Northeast...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Skaters, Huskies to Clash In Boston Arena Contest | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

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