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To my mind, though, Jewish toughness of the sort that was in evidence in Entebbe, Uganda, 22 years ago, when armed Jews flew thousands of miles to rescue Jewish innocents from death, was one of the great moments in post-Holocaust Jewish history--a statement to the world that Jews will no longer sit idly by and watch themselves being oppressed.
"The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock, as her enemies call her because of her toughness and her imperiousness, has been and still is his inspiration, his ace in the sleeve."
Thus, differences in either fracture toughness or flaw sizes/densities, or a combination of the two, would explain why the Procera copings had higher fracture tendency.
During the past few years, ZrO 2 has been introduced to dentistry [ 14 15 ] . The partially stabilized ZrO 2 has a fracture toughness twice that of A 2 O 3 [ 16 ] suggesting that ZrO 2 based copings could become a major competitor to Procera in the future.
But Dole and his advisers have also sought to turn the toughness that enabled Dole to overcome his injury into an asset, the counterpoint to the Bush "wimp" image that is the other side of the deeply personal contest between the two men.