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...letters offering it religious diatribes or unsolicited individual world views, imploring it to endorse a chain letter, inquiring on the best method to do a math problem, and requesting to use its contacts in the right wing to start a revolution--in addition to routine pleas for a "little chunk of your large endowment." They all made their way to the office of Jim Ball, a public information officer in Harvard's News Office...
...chunk of the saving would be provided by the payroll-tax hike and delay in benefit increases recommended last week by the Social Security commission. The rest would come from an $8 billion reduction in planned military spending already announced by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, skipping of a pay increase for federal employees, a delay in cost of living increases for federal civilian and military as well as Social Security pensioners, and further reductions in such social programs as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Overall, the aim is to freeze most nondefense spending at fiscal 1983 levels in dollar...
...urging both the President and Congress to face this economic crisis with a realistic program to reduce the huge deficits, he tapped the frustrations of millions of small and big businessmen, bankers, teachers, accountants, lawyers and editors. Peterson, who never really intended it that way, has taken a sizable chunk of presidential authority through an impulse that was inspired last spring by the native American realization that "something needs to be done...
...acid test is really whether you laugh enough during the film to forget that you're actually watching a dead man. The first time I saw the movie, a large chunk of ceiling collapsed in the back of the theater just as the flashback sequence was coming to a close. Every head in the house swung around--not just out of ordinary curiosity, but almost as if, in some bizarre perversion of Sensurround. Sellers had survived and Inspector Clouseau had fallen through our ceiling after yet another battle with Cato. Soon. Blake Edwards is going to unveil a sixth sequel...
Then a young black woman lunged forward and slit his throat with a pocketknife. The victim, Dan Murek, 48, miraculously survived. Rosemary Usher Jones, a local judge, tried to keep driving after a concrete chunk smashed her car window, but was soon hemmed in by the mob. Said Jones, 53: "They ripped my rings off my fingers." She was pulled to safety by two black girls and by Willie Watkins, owner of the 14th Street video arcade, where the violence had begun...