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A wave of emotion swept the world's press Monday following the death of King Hussein of Jordan, but nowhere more than in Israel.
After sacking Rome in a.d. 410, the Visigoths swept into Spain.
But there seems to be something true about the argument that to secure the maximum number of subscribers who can afford to pay an annual subscription, as well as increasingly discriminating advertisers, journals always have to work hard to appeal to the developed world audience [ 25 ] . Therefore the filling of scarce pages with research from the developing world makes no commercial sense and publishers are unlikely to support editors who take their journals in such a direction [ 25 ] . This hindrance should be swept away by the appearance of e-journals like the BioMed Central periodicals, which theoretically have no page limitations.
Also, the entries on the Alexanders did not mention her role as the president of the Human Relations Commission, a city organization that was started when the reform Democrats swept the Republicans out of power in the city in 1951 and changed the city charter.
Thus far, despite a four-hour meeting with President Clinton and an admission by USDA secretary Dan Glickman that his department had swept the problem under the rug, as well as numerous specific findings of illegal denials of loans, the farmers are still waiting to be made whole.