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Those million-dollar salaries paid to America's top executives [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, May 7] make me choke. These businessmen blame the Government for failing to pass trade restrictions and fault their workers for demanding higher wages. I feel cheated by these...
...accounts, a particularly grisly execution. The hangman had to climb onto the shoulders of one of the students, who was so thin that he could not choke to death, in order to complete the work of the noose. To ensure that the spectacle was properly attended, students were prevented from leaving the campus, but many turned their backs and refused to watch. When the hangings were over, someone in the crowd released a dog wearing a colonel's uniform with quotations from the "Green Book" of Gaddafi's wisdom pinned to the sleeves. Police reportedly chased...
Taking a full year of organic chemistry in eight weeks at Harvard summer school was a lot like eating that pizza. Although it seemed like a great idea beforehand, it was excruciating to choke down. But after my stomach had settled, there was a goofy sense of accomplishment. And much as I wanted to quit during the middle, it wasn't ever a realistic option...
...last year, with some observers proclaiming that B.C. would always choke in the big games and never get that first 'Pot since 1976 (and second since 1965), the Eagles fooled their critics. Against a powerful Harvard squad (the eventual ECAC champs) in the semifinal, unheralded freshman Bob Sweeney set up the trying goal with four minutes left in the regulation and, after his team survived a Crimson power play in overtime, stole the puck in the Harvard zone to set up Ed Rauseo for the game-winner--all to set the stage for the rout of N.U. a week later...
...economy is enjoying strong increases in production, jobs and incomes, and inflation is at an eleven-year low. Deficits are a problem to which the President cannot afford to appear indifferent, but his advisers doubt that they will weigh decisively with many voters, unless the red ink threatens to choke off the recovery or spur a new round of inflation. Says Ed Rollins, director of the Reagan-Bush '84 Committee: "I don't think they can beat us on economic issues...