Word: catching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...receives too many benefits. I say, if military benefits are all that great, why are we having all these people leaving?" But to improve pay and benefits would be very costly. A wage increase that simply permitted servicemen to catch up with inflation since 1972 (about 75%) would cost $5 billion. Reinstating attractive educational benefits, similar to the old G.I. Bill, would run an additional $1 billion...
After that first season, in which Eichner relied primarily on his innate ability, the long hours spent in the library began to catch up with him. In his mind, the next year and a half were a disappointment where running was concerned...
...Reed Eichner, a junior who won this race as a freshman, and John Murphy, another junior, should be setting the pace from the start. Franklin Park is their home course and they know how to run it. "As long as we get a lead on them, they won't catch up," Eichner said yesterday...
...only at those targets where it can win friends with a minimum investment. In Grenada, for example, notes one businessman, "the Cubans made an excellent choice of aid when they gave the island its first fishing trawler"-a 65-ft. vessel that will greatly augment the tiny catch made by the country's fleet of small, open fishing boats. In an interview with TIME, Grenada's Socialist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop claimed that "one of the reasons Cubans are in Grenada is because the Americans aren't." He said it took ten days after the coup...
...because of family connections with a Harvard man. His most vivid memories are of Harvard, and everyone he meets has had a memorably bad experience with a Harvard graduate. Harvard has given Starbuck a one-way ticket to the top, but it hasn't put out the net to catch him when he falls. And he does fall, of course, only to be thrust on the escalator again by the omnipresent invisible hand that is the ghost of Harvard past...