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Both the House and Senate versions would cancel a 50-cent price-support cut set for January 1 and the plan to actually increase the level was denounced by Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng as well as an array of business and farm groups that often are allies of the dairy industry on such matters...
This season her acolyte is Ebby Calvin ("Nuke") LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a southpaw with a million-dollar arm and a five-cent head. Nuke is a little raw. He's meat in need of curing, and Annie sees that as her mission. So she straps him into her bed and reads passages from I Sing the Body Electric. You remember Walt Whitman; according to Annie, he pitched for the Cosmic All- Stars. And his dithyrambs, invoking "limitless limpid jets of love," could be in praise of a fastball pitcher whose arm doesn't turn to overcooked pasta...
...bought or opened 750 specialty outlets, including such chains as HomeClub and T.J. Maxx. Woolworth has moved into higher-priced markets by buying such specialty chains as Foot Locker and Tennis Lady. Says Joseph Carroll, a Woolworth vice president: "We're no longer just a five-and-ten-cent store...
...were also influential in keeping the 16 cent cigarrette tax the same and not cut back in half to eight cents," he says...
Essentially, Harvard is not willing to sacrifice one cent of its gargantuan endowment, even in the short run, to give fully qualified minority students equality with their more established peers. Instead, the university prefers to "phase in" equality, waiting for its pool of Asian-American graduates to climb up the income ladder and to pay their dues for the privilege of admitting their children...