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...parliamentary vote, former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt appealed to a special conference of the opposition Social Democratic Party to support the deployments. West Germany, Schmidt told some 400 delegates, "must keep to its word in spite of all the disappointments about speeches and about behavior in Washington." He added: "My second reason is that the political equilibrium would be enduringly disturbed if the Soviet Union forged ahead with its unprovoked, one-sided buildup." The speech received only perfunctory applause. Said a delegate: "We see his voice as a voice of the party's past." At the urging of former Chancellor...
...spite of the [new UHS] hygiene course. I don't want to betray a table image by wearing cock roaches on my shirt. "Says manager D. Kim bro Services '84 adding. "This a classy establishment." Whether the slogan will change remains unclear...
...years he appeared in more than 180 stage productions, 62 movies and at least a score of TV plays. Through his early years he was the middle-class Everyman, shuffling toward archetype with good will and capacious common sense. But as he aged, his characters turned imperious and, in spite of their power, ineffectual. In David Storey's Home (1970), John Osborne's West of Suez (1971) and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1975) and in the films The Heiress (1950) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), Richardson found his ideal role: as the haughty burgher...
...deplorable that Idaho Senator James McClure, the chairman of the committee which has jurisdiction over the Interior Department, anticipates no difficulty in confirming the Secretary, in spite of Clark's record and his profound inexperience. The Senate almost never exercises its veto power over appointments, but Clark's nomination is the perfect opportunity. The committee should take Percy's words to heart, even more specifically than they were meant, and never again accept Clark while turning a blind eye to his ignorance...
...most fearsome of these creatures were carnivores, like the ferocious Tyrannosaurus, which seems to have feasted on its fellow dinosaurs. Others, like the long-necked Brontosaurus, the archetypal dinosaur of cartoons, were gentle, browsing vegetarians. In spite of their comparatively small brains, dinosaurs were not dumb, floundering brutes. Deinonychus, for instance, was a fleet, two-footed creature with scimitar-like claws on its hind legs, grasping hands and dagger-sharp teeth. It apparently hunted in packs, in the manner of wolves. Stegoceras perhaps employed the thick dome on its skull in sexual combat, as an elk uses its horns. Dinosaurs...