Word: things
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Walsh also criticized the decision because hesaid it amounted to a vote of no-confidence inCambridge's police. "The thing we're saying isthat there is not one qualified policeman inCambridge to succeed Chief Paolillo," he said...
...understandable response would be to ignore the whole thing. But ignorance is not an option. The clash, however angry and ominous, is not just the usual dustup between raucous young stars and the professional squares who oppose them. It's not just about dirty words and bad attitude. The battle over pop raunch reflects a crucial fissure in American social and political culture that was born a long generation ago and came of age in the Reagan-Bush...
What Bush is doing is all he can -- or should -- do. He has publicly thanked President Hafez Assad for his help in freeing Polhill, boosting the Syrian's prestige. He has passed the word that he is ready to talk with Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani. This sort of thing makes it easier for Syria and Iran to put pressure on the terrorists holding the hostages...
...recommended by Hewett and Hornik -- has redoubled doubts about whether the U.S.S.R. will make it. Still, nobody is counting Gorbachev out yet. "We can't just take what he is saying, that he won't let prices float, at face value," says Hewett. "This is not the kind of thing that you announce with a lot of lead time." In the end, the Soviet President -- whom Hewett calls a "man I would not want to play poker with" -- may well find our authors' prescriptions more useful than he is letting...
...vision thing" is rare these days, but his has persisted since 1946, when he began pushing the idea of an orbiting telescope. With the Hubble at last aloft, his vision makes ours cosmic...