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...visit to Washington. Connally, who was once Secretary of the Navy, would chop $10 billion from the defense budget, and then use that cut as a club to get Congress to hold down the entitlement programs that mainly benefit the middle class and will be responsible for a big chunk of the new deficits. Break the old constraints, Connally pleaded, or soon it will be too late...
WHAT, THEN, of the other tenet in the new common wisdom--that young conservatives have carved out and pocketed a sizeable chunk of the campus political scene? At Harvard, there has been considerable action on the Right...
According to an informal newspaper poll, 85% of the region's 98,000 residents may favor an official switch of allegiance. They feel their chunk of Nebraska is misunderstood or ignored by the government in the state's capital back east in Lincoln. The rawboned ranching life in the panhandle, they argue, is kindred to the wild West of Wyoming...
...last night, with both teams in the middle of the still young, but obviously top syturvy Ivy race, the game did mean something, namely a big chunk of the league lead. And the Bruins--who lost their first 11 games of the season but who have since rebounded with wins over perennial Ivy Powers Penn and Princeton--responded to the uncustomary call of the league lead, dumping the Crimson, 69-65, at Brown's Marvel...
...banks that loaned funds directly to the South African government. Even for the financiers that run this University, the thought of directly supporting a blatantly racist government was indefensible. And so they did get rid of some notes sitting in the Manufacturers Hanover Trust treasury, and of a sizeable chunk of money in Citibank. They did it secretly; they did it slowly; but they did it, and it earned enough publicity to have at least a little impact on the public perception of South Africa...