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Though Harvard finished over five seconds--a head of second place Washington, many will contend that such an early win is inconclusive. But an examination of early season handicaps only lends greater significance to the Harvard victory...
...every woman who found a successful job contact through volunteering, there is the woman who found herself manipulated by a paid professional coordinator. Despite Loeser's hope that women will be regarded as volunteer professionals, there is still professional snobbery that women have to contend with. For every successful collaboration between volunteer and agency, there is still exploitation (a woman who raises money for the high school hockey team finds that the following year the school board, impressed with her efforts, allocates no money to the hockey team, giving it all to the football team instead...
...full House Foreign Relations Committee then rejected the advice of its subcommittee and killed the compromise $82.5 million aid plan by a vote of 18 to 15. It did so after hearing Assistant Secretary of State Robert S. Ingersoll contend that an aid cutoff would render the U.S. incapable of applying effective pressure to get the contending parties to negotiate. A majority of the committee seemed to feel that the Administration should have been pushing harder for negotiation long...
Last year Pérez began to put half of the country's oil revenues into the Venezuelan Investment Fund, which lends and invests abroad. Local critics contend that more petromoney should be spent to improve the living conditions of the country's poor. But the investment fund goes a long way toward fulfilling one of Pérez's principal objectives: to offer other Latin nations an alternative to Washington's leadership. Venezuela has pledged $50 million to an incipient cartel of five Latin American nations. The loan is to enable them to cut coffee...
...delicatessen that accounts for half of its sales with phoned orders. Florists cut off from Florists' Transworld Delivery complained that they could no longer say it with flowers; with their phones dead, funeral parlors in the area reported that business was "dying." Pharmacist Sanford Eidinger also had to contend with "people who come in off the street with prescriptions for all kinds of things." Apparently, addicts with stolen or forged prescription blanks were quick to take advantage of the fact that pharmacies could not call doctors to check the orders...