Word: bum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson began the season as the league's favorite in some experts estimation, but an early dry period suffered by offensive leader Don Fleming, followed by an injury to point guard Calvin Dixon and Trout's bum elbow derailed what could have been Harvard's first-ever championship team...
...There is a feeling that it is a bum idea and ought to be changed," says Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. But, surprisingly, the leasing provisions are defended by some of the very economists who most harshly assail last year's giveaways. Brookings Institution Economist Barry Bosworth grumbles about "all sorts of crazy things" written into the bill but says the leasing provisions will lead to "a reasonable redistribution of [corporate] wealth." Even Greenspan approves the idea. One possible compromise: forbidding the sale of tax benefits by companies like Occidental, which are profitable...
...that they no longer wanted to pay for Francis M. Bator, professor of Political Economics, said last night that the new state responsibilities may not be accompanied by enough federal funds to pay for them. "I would guess that by and large state governments will think it is a bum deal," he added...
...need of interrogation than an unlucky citizen in need of assistance. Says a young writer who was among the anonymous hundreds that Harry Maurer taped for the oral history Not Working: "I always get the feeling that the people at the umemployment office think I'm a bum or something." Says another of Maurer's subjects, a welder. of the umemployment rites: "You get a feeling of rejection. Especially the feeling that they're better than...
...Orleans Saints Head Coach Bum Phillips, one of Bear's assistants at A & M, was awed by Bryant's command. "He'd go into a staff meeting," Phillips says, "and he'd never have to say, 'Let me have you-all's attention.' Hell, he had it. You respected him and you liked him. You didn't do it because you were scared of him. Although I was a little scared...