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...Columbia coach, who left Susquehana College in 1965 after slapping a player, was lured to Columbia last spring as part of an effort to bolster the college's slumbering football program. The Lions have not produced a winning football team since the early 1970s...
Last year, Columbia got a new football stadium in an attempt to bolster a 1-7-2 squad...
Last year, Columbia got a new football stadium in an attempt to bolster a 1-7-2 squad...
...single largest economic entity in the world. The line-item veto has not given other leaders powers disproportionate to their position, but has contributed to maintaining sound economic principles at the state and city levels. If this country calls for a balanced budget and deficit reduction to bolster the economy and maintain should fiscal policy, the line-item veto would be the only way to enforce such a mandate...
Both sides in the debate over contra funding use the specter of an invasion to bolster their case. Democrats and other critics warn that any further aid will be one more step down a dark tunnel of U.S. involvement. The Administration warns that withholding such assistance hastens the day when less attractive options will become necessary. The $30 million or so is hardly the issue; the Pentagon spends that amount in less than an hour. What is at stake is a symbol of U.S. commitment to oppose and perhaps topple the Sandinista regime, with starkly differing views on where such...