Word: badly
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This would allow the legislature to assess at different rates two types of land: privately-owned recreation land, and land left in its natural state. The legislature presently has this power regarding agricultural and wild or forest land. It's too bad the "natural state" provision is mixed in with the "recreation" provision, because passage of Question 7 basically means a tax break for country clubs. Golf, anyone...
...Crimson, however, is coming off a week of highly therapeutic practice. The squad is almost at full strength with the exception of defensive tackle Tom Temple, out with a bad knee, and linebacker Bob Woolway, who may play with a pinched nerve in his neck. Yesterday's practice by all accounts was particularly cathartic with a five minute period of spontaneous screaming preceding the workout so Harvard seems prepared both physically and psychologically...
...political corruption altogether. Marie Howe has for years been able to evade the question of personal ethics by making the issue one of ethnicity, accusing opposing Italian political families of "plots" and "vendettas" against her. In fact, she says, "It's an issue of the good people versus the bad people, with us being the good people.... They hate me because I'm totally uncorruptable...
...rampant, but charging $3 for a House show is absurd and almost menacing--sort of like Chase Manhattan raising the prime lending rate to 15 per cent overnight. And the schedule, which calls for two shows on one night for each of the three-week run, is almost as bad as asking a pitcher to start both ends of a doubleheader. The show runs a whopping two hours and forty-five minutes, and asking any cast to do that twice in a night is pushing matters...
...King looked pretty nervous. His eyes darted around the platform, in front of Lynn City Hall all decorated with American flags and pots of yellow mums, like he was watching for someone to blind-side him from the left. And his mouth, drawn up tight, must have had a bad taste in it. Even the president of the United States couldn't stop the boos and hisses which greeted King's introduction...