Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Repeal Inflationary Special-Interest Laws. The Jones Act, which requires all goods moving between U.S. ports to travel aboard high-cost U.S. ships, has many inflationary consequences, including raising the price of Alaskan oil shipped to the West and Gulf Coasts. The Davis-Bacon Act, a relic of the Depression, swells construction costs by requiring, in effect, that union wages must be paid on all federally aided projects...
Pipe arguments are the equivalent of pipe dreams. The farther they wander from probabilities, the more fun and fury they produce. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear were experts at such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea...
Desaulniers blanked Princeton's Tom Page, 3-0 to claim the "A" division title. Bacon followed suit in the "B" class with a 3-1 victory over another Princeton foe, Bill Fisher...
...route to his title appearance, Bacon downed two opponents he had previously lost to during the regular season. In the finals Bacon defeated one of Princeton's top players...
Besides Desaulniers and Bacon, who copped the "A" and "B" crowns, Princeton's Andy Frost won the "C" class by defeating a fellow Tiger, Peter Thompson...