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...issue is usually whose mother makes the best sauce. Last week a dispute over pasta was simmering on an international scale. In an attempt to protect U.S. noodlemakers, President Reagan slapped a large tariff increase on European manufacturers. The tariff will rise from about one-tenth of a cent to some 10 cents per lb. on the price of noodles made with eggs and from one-eighth of a cent to 10 cents for eggless pasta...
...sense." The department defended this act of amnesty by arguing that it wanted a fast settlement so that the banks could get their money back quickly. Said Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott: "The notion that the Justice Department is being soft is ridiculous. E.F. Hutton will repay every red cent plus interest." But critics in Congress fumed. Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware said, "Respect for the law suffers immensely when the public reads that you have (the Hutton) scheme going on, and nobody is prosecuted. I think it is a travesty...
...plan on stopping in for a five cent beer at your favorite watering hole in Cambridge during your reunion visit, forget...
...report also recommends an increase in financial aid funding, and rates that retaining "the principles of the present aid plan ... will require more funding--estimated jobs 15 per cent beyond a normal inflationary increase--and a concerted effort to focus available resources on students who are on schedule to complete then degree programs in a reasonable time...
...chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees NASA's budget, Jake Garn once joked that if he did not get to fly on the space shuttle, he would not appropriate "another cent" to the agency. When NASA obligingly ticketed him for a trip, critics accused Garn of using his political clout to hitch a costly joyride--the ultimate congressional junket. But the Utah Republican dismissed such carping as "sour grapes." After undergoing four months of intensive training to prove that he had the right stuff, Garn blasted off aboard the 16th U.S. shuttle mission last Friday...