Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyway, did you ever realize that there are some people who have been up for five hours. Count that back on your fingers. That's 6 a.m.--before WCOZ starts playing music, so don't set your clock radio to it--before the dining halls open for breakfast and even before The Crimson is delivered...
During the campaign, and even after he entered the White House, Jimmy Carter kept people guessing as to whether he was at heart a liberal or a conservative. There was ample evidence to support either view. But last week, over breakfast at the White House, many liberal Democrats feared they had glimpsed the real Carter-and the sight struck them as unnervingly conservative...
...subsequent White House breakfast meeting the next day, House Speaker Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill reminded Carter that the Democratic Party had historically been the "champion of the poor and the indigent." There are 12 million people still on welfare, said O'Neill, 7 million of them children. There was no consensus among Democrats on the Hill to cut back existing programs or give up new ones. "I can read this Congress," he told Carter. "If there is no move to serve those who need compassion, we'll run into a bag of troubles." Carter replied that...
Wrong Turn. Nonetheless, two Singen officers ambled down to the Café Hanser for a routine check of the report. There, composedly eating breakfast at a table, were a young man with a huge drooping moustache and a thin-lipped blonde. Asked for his identity papers, the man led the policemen into a nearby parking area. Reaching into his rucksack, he pulled out a sawed-off submachine gun, shot one of the officers in the chest and wounded the other in the arm. Commandeering an Opel at gunpoint from a passing motorist, he and his companion sped...
...saddest part of the Fox breakfast decision is not the dislocation it will bring to students and workers but the fact that the whole problem may have been unavoidable. Dean Rosovsky and Fox dismissed out of hand the possibility of retaining hot breakfasts in all Houses, a move that would have cost each student an extra $18 to $30 in board fees each year. Administrators did not look seriously at the 14-meal plan, an option that would allow students to decide for themselves how important breakfast is to them. At the very least Fox should rotate the hot breakfasts...