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...would go forth from here to serve democracy well, you must first save the language. Save it from the jargon of insiders, who talk of the current budget debate in Washington as 'megapolicy choices between freeze-feasible base lines.' (Sounds more like a baseball game played in the Arctic Circle.) Save it from the smokescreen artists, who speak of 'revenue enhancement' and 'tax-base erosion control' when they really mean a tax increase . . . Save it from the partisan deniers of reality -- who now refer to the physically handicapped as 'differently abled' -- and from the official revisionists of reality...
...only remaining negative aspect of the track is the gusty winds that plague the site. The winds not only keep the times from falling as low as they might, they also add an undesirable Arctic pect to the competitions...
...ever-threatening rain unmercifully never fell, so the two teams and 57 freeze-dried fans had to withstand almost three hours of arctic weather...
...score, following the weather's example, froze at that point, and the Crimson held out for four more arctic innings to wrap up an 8-2 victory at Soldiers Field...
...summit also tackled more controversial matters. Mulroney pleased the President--and the Pentagon--by committing Canada to pay 40% of the cost of a $1.3 billion program to improve and upgrade the aging Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations strung across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Built in the 1950s, the DEW line radars are now virtual museum pieces. In their place, the U.S. and Canada will install 13 manned long-range radar stations and 39 automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet...