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Her children's personal lives are deliberately excised from the book; the cowardly episode in which she and Ben Bradlee misused their inordinate power to scuttle a wretchedly flawed book about her ( Katharine the Great by Deborah Davis, published in 1979) is not mentioned; and she only hints at her post-Phil romantic life.
President Clinton's foreign-policy team takes to the chat-show circuit to argue that rejection of the nuclear-testing treaty would scuttle international non-proliferation efforts.
America's slow vanishing, whose pacewas doubled, not restrained, by celluloid.The summer nights on Fire Island, proppedon hard liquor like driftwood in a scuttle;the winter nights in violin-backed chairs(the slender tenors with their pompadours!)
The Republicans "know they risk nuclear proliferation if they scuttle it" but will do so because they "want to deny President Bill Clinton his top foreign policy goal," the paper said.
Bugs are errors, somewhat analogous to typos or factual errors in newspaper articles, but the difference is that a typo is almost never enough to spoil an entire edition of a newspaper, whereas a tiny error in a software program can scuttle it.