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Schmeltzer was not the only non-candidate oncouncil ballots this year. A Dunster Housegrassroots campaign tried to catapult longtimenon-candidate candidate Ross Perot into studentgovernment because Harvard, too, needs to "cleanout the barn and take out the trash," as onecampaign poster...
Even the gloomiest figures, though, now offer some paradoxical cheer. The fourth-quarter dive in G.N.P. resulted largely from a cleanout of inventories of unsold goods, especially cars. That puts business in a position to raise production sharply and rehire workers once final sales turn up, as auto sales already have. Housing starts last year, at 1,061,000, were the fewest since 1946. But the monthly rate, even after a December setback, has jumped 43% from its October 1981 low. Further increases are likely because of a sharp drop in mortgage interest rates that also was the primary force...
...women passengers produced guns and tried to force the plane to Miami. The ship crash-landed, and the dash to freedom ended. A day later, after a kangaroo trial, the four men were sentenced to die. ¶In Las Villas province, where the government had earlier reported a complete cleanout of the Sierra Escambray rebel bands, militia and artillery moved into the hills for a new assault on the freedom fighters' stronghold...
...transition without pause from subdued "Quoniam" to the crashing joy of the "Cum Sancto Spritu" was one of the most dramatic moments I have ever heard in music. Though things, got a little out of control in the "Et Resurrexit," the chorus redeemed itself in a powerful and cleanout performance of the "Sanetus...
Congressmen reasoned that all that was needed was a good cleanout; there was no real labor pinch, that where there were local shortages, the voluntary methods advocated by organized labor and the N.A.M. would probably do the trick. Cleveland was launching such a campaign. Even the War Manpower Commission might be able to handle things. WMC had bared its muscle in Allentown, Pa., and had put high-paid brewery workers in munitions plants. Congress relaxed...