Word: bandwagons
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Only after a stable of horses has been assembled can a coach expect to pull along such a bandwagon. Against the Cadets, sophomore sensation Bobby Hackett proved once again that he is the thorough-bred of Bernal's annually-improved squad...
...mysterious green button bearing only the initials FCBCD blossomed on the chests of some White House staffers last week. The letters, it was happily explained, meant, "For Carter Before Camp David." And that meant, in turn, that the Carter bandwagon was rolling along faster than ever. At one point, Presidential Aide Hamilton Jordan literally skipped down a White House corridor, chortling, "Hey, you all hear the vote? You hear that vote...
...full ordinary-income rates, which would have meant a doubling of levies on many small and medium-size gains. Then Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, a panelist at the Time conference, introduced an amendment to peel the levy back to 25%, and to his own astonishment got a mighty bandwagon rolling. The House wrote into its tax bill a cut in maximum capital gains rates-though only...
...gate sales slump and sponsors disappear. Late withdrawals to rest or to nurse phantom injuries-only to have fallen heroes turn up at an exhibition in Puerto Rico, not an orthopedic ward-have become common. As a result, corporations once eager to hitch their brand names to the tennis bandwagon have begun to have second thoughts. American Airlines sponsored a G.P. tournament for five years, putting up $225,000 in prize money and another $50,000 in promotion. But the absence of big-name players gradually undermined the event's allure, and the airline now refuses to sponsor...
...professors in the natural sciences, who felt their disciplines were under-represented in the scheme of requirements--agreed to a "floater" amendment, which authorized the administrative Core Committees to study the possibility of switching one or more courses among different sub-areas. Most of the disgruntled professors joined the bandwagon as eagerly as if they had been firmly promised a spot in the Cote, rather than just that possibility. (Hope springs eternal, they say.) Likewise, another amendment authorized research into and experimentatin with a strictly regulated by-pass system--again, no promises were made, and the final decision was granted...