Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Republican leader, says that from a G.O.P. perspective the House's performance rates "about three on a scale of one to ten." But he concedes that from the Democrats' point of view, "I'd have to give them a seven or eight." Overall, Rhodes' seven or eight seems closer to the mark than his partisan three...
...lunch. I for one felt like Ryan O'Neal must have felt when Ali McGraw told him he had no right to use Radcliffe libraries when Harvard owned ten million books. Sure, I could go back to Currier or test the unknown at Adams, but the Union is closer and what's the $7000 for anyway, guys...
...COST AND QUESTIONABLE value of the MX, however, do not describe all that is irksome about the missile. While the MX would be clothed in the rhetoric of limited counter-force and deterrence, it would bring the U.S. capabilities closer to launching a first-strike against the Soviet Union than they have ever been. At least in part, current Soviet programs of escalation constitute a reaction to American development of new multiple, independently-targeted re-entry vehicles, to breakthroughs in missile accuracy, and to the development of the cruise missile. Adding the MX to our arsenal could only heighten Soviet...
...PROBLEM OF THE POOR" provided the main drama for the middle class of late Victorian England. To ignore the poverty in the middle of their riches would only bring the rumblings of working-class revolution closer to home. To indulge those who had themselves ignored the middle class doctrine of self-improvement would only encourage their own tendency to gratify themselves. The only answer that remained was reform. If the middle class was to save society from the touch of the "undeserving" poor, the sole solution was to save the "deserving" poor by recreating them in a middle class image...
...that friction may not be an unhealthy one. Cipolla--who recently dropped her long-time nickname, Fishweasel--has been getting more singing offers in the past few months; she opened a concert for Livingston Taylor last Sunday, and is currently negotiating with Asylum Records. Closer to home, she will be singing this weekend at the Nameless Coffeehouse in Cambridge. As she wrote in one of her more recent songs...