Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spurring the issue is a decision by University Police to begin enforcement this semester of an age-old ban on bicycle riding in the Yard. The purpose of the ban, police say, is not to hamper bicyclists, but to protect pedestrians. Bicyclists counter that the money spent on posting policemen at the entrances to the Yard would better have been used to begin the network of bicycle paths that no one seems to have taken seriously five years ago. Their protests should cause the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and senior administrators to reconsider seriously...
...Within five days, Aviation Week, ABC-TV and the Washington Post reported on the project. On Aug. 14, Post Reporter George C. Wilson wrote that President Carter was about to commit himself to the development of a bomber "virtually invisible to enemy radar" and that it might help him counter Republican charges that he had neglected U.S. defenses. Actually, Carter has not gone that far, but the Administration is seriously considering recommending the development of a bomber using the Stealth technology...
...meeting came three days after the Ayatollah Khomeini gave a speech that raised eyebrows among weary observers of the seemingly endless rollercoaster of hints, charges, denials and counter-charges that has continued since the hostages were seized last November...
...good to last, and it did not. In July the tab at the supermarket checkout counter rose 1.6%, and wholesale food prices in August shot up 4.4%, the highest monthly jump in seven years. Moreover, prices are expected to keep right on going up for at least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto...
...First will have a chance to counter those charges Wednesday night in a hearing before the State Board of Banking Corp. The banks, the community groups and MURAG's representatives are expected to testify...