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...thought of accommodating so many new lodgers. Much of this initial wariness disappeared after hours of conferences and committee meetings, but a good deal of caution remains. "Everybody doesn't agree with the move, but a vast majority feel this is the correct thing to do," says McCue. His counterpart, Allison, adds that "at first blush, our reaction was, 'Look, we're full up. We don't need this.' Later, everyone became persuaded of the logic of the president's case...
...comes across as merely silly. Sarah Sewall, as the spinster aunt, falls into the obvious danger of mawkishness. She lavishes devotion on her brother's children and her sister-in-law's brother too ostentatiously. And, like Evans, Sewall does not move like a middle-aged woman. Her counterpart is much better. Genuinely funny as the incorrigible uncle, the drunken wastrel, one wishes Jonathan David Lemkin appeared more often...
Former anti-war activist Tom Hayden said the current anti-registration movement is farther advanced than its counterpart of the 1960s. "Then we didn't get this level of consciousness until tens of thousands of troops had been committed. You have a chance to be the generation that stopped the war before it ever begins...
...York, for example, averages $20,800 a year, almost twice as much as he would get in London and three times what he would earn in Paris. A teacher in Chicago with ten years of experience receives about $20,100 a year; this is below the $31,400 his counterpart in Zurich makes, but well above the $12,200 a London schoolmarm or master gets. A chef at a good restaurant in San Francisco makes more than three times the $8,700 that a cook in a similar place in London would earn...
...administration of squash in the U.S. has left the game in its elitist roots--racquetball has scooped up the mass market, while squash has lagged, although it can be promoted with great success." He points to once tennis-hungry Australia, where squash now has greater popularity than its outdoor counterpart...