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...followed the standard liberal Democratic policies of pump priming and full employment. He has recently introduced a bill calling for a breakup of big oil companies (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS). Bayh favors some kind of federal aid for New York City. "If you let New York go down the drain," he said in a speech in Ohio, "it's going to be tough on Youngstown! It's going to be tough on Terre Haute! It's going to be tough on Peoria...
...teen-agers with broken or fractured limbs, particularly "skateboard elbow," caused by landing funny-bone-first. To cut down the carnage rate, Long Beach, San Diego and other communities have banned skateboarding in the streets and parks; Hollywood Hills' celebrated "Toilet Bowl," a vast, saucer-like storm drain that attracts thousands of skateboard stunters each week, has been modified with antispeed bumps to slow the action; some San Diego high schools are planning special skateboard safety classes. But even star boarders wind up in splints. SkateBoarder Editor Bolster broke both his wrists this year...
...second half, with Harvard firmly ahead, it was raining hard. McInally's corduroy racing cap was soaked, and he tilted his program down every few minutes--"to drain it," he said...
...eleven teams voted not to strike, acting on sentiments that ran from dislike of Garvey and his emphasis on non-money matters to plain lack of enthusiasm for militant action. "I hate to see the association go down the drain," explained Miami Center Jim Langer, whose team voted not to strike, "but they talk like a union. I love the game of football. It's been great to a lot of people, including...
When the department meets to consider appointments, the Gov faculty often divides along methodological, institutional and political lines. "People do have those opinions and tend to prefer to hire people with the same opinions as themselves, but we would very quickly go down the drain if we used similarity of opinion as the main criterion," Mansfield said...