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...David Stockman survives in the Reagan Administration, it probably won't be because of the damage-limiting support he got from two conservative newspaper columnists. On David Brinkley's new ABC show, George F. Will predicted that "Stockman will come out of this as an enhanced asset" because the man who could testify one way to Congress and talk another way to a journalist friend who quoted him in the Atlantic Monthly had shown himself "open to evidence." Try telling that to a Congressman whose vote turned on believing Stockman's knowing deceptions the first time around...
...raising room prices by an average of 20% have many resorts managed to stay in business. The area's real estate boom, which doubled the price of an average one-family house between 1978 and 1980, has virtually stopped dead. Even the environment, long the region's most attractive asset, is showing signs of wear. Decades of economic growth threaten to outstrip the water supply; water is occasionally rationed in some parts of the area. "We're at a crossroads," says Jane Cousins, a leading Miami real estate agent. "No city in the world has ever had happen...
...biggest asset is running plays down," Crimson head coach Joe Restic says. "His strength is recovery, getting back in the action. He doesn't give up. He continues the play until it's finished, and that's the same with practice. He continues until it's finished...
...Crimson's biggest asset remains its ability to create opportunities and to capitalize on them. Whomever Harvard plays, the contests will surely be close and the victor will probably be the squad which gets the breaks. And in that case, the booters stand in good stead...
...Besides," said Levey, "He can only be an asset since he has played Harvard football...