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...grammarians and those used to political ooze quickly realized, that language did not oppose all tax increases, just harmful ones. Indeed, presidential advisers hoped to leave the door ajar for tax increases "as a last resort," in the President's words. Arguing in support of the limited loophole was Drew Lewis, former Secretary of Transportation and Reagan's liaison to the platform group, who insisted, colorfully if somewhat disjointedly: "I don't care if they close the door completely, but I want to be able to get a screwdriver in if the need arises...
...particularly rich with promise for millions of women who feel tied to the home because of young children. Sarah Sue Hardinger has a son, 3, and a daughter three months old; the computer in her cream-colored stucco house in South Minneapolis is surrounded by children's books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting a PLATO grammar program...
...astronauts' first tasks after they reach orbit will be to open the big mechanically controlled doors of the cargo bay. Besides testing the mechanism, the operation is essential for ridding the orbiter of heat from the electronic equipment. The doors will be kept ajar during much of the flight. To shade the exposed bay from the sun, Columbia will fly upside down...
...breakfast formation, and taps sound at 11 p.m. Once during the school year they are allowed to leave campus--at Christmas break. Cadets of the opposite sex are allowed in the barracks rooms during the day, but only if the door is ajar. Not surprisingly, the dropout rate during plebe year is one-fourth to one-third, Lt. Col. Miguel E. Monteverde, spokesman for the academy, admits...
...Washington for a meeting of the Association of American Universities, said yesterday he closed the door to his single room, went to sleep, and when he woke up in the morning, the door to his room was ajar and his property was gone...