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...Kirkland recanted the tale of his moment in the limelight, one could tell that he missed it. It was not because he saw a pro career go down the drain...
Harvard entertained hopes of being invited to that slugfest last season but saw its dreams go down the drain with an overtime loss to Brown and an 18-7 pummelling at the hands of UMass. Scalise has concluded that while a 13-2 record would guarantee the Crimson a shot this year, there might still be an outside chance with three losses. But you could kiss the bid goodbye with four setbacks...
...many more fear their turn may come next. Says Jesse Butler, 49, "I'm ten men from going out the door." In November, after 14 years at Vertol, Butler was bumped down from an R.-and-D. mechanic to utility man, which means he is "down the drain $2,000 a year." Toolmaker Hubert Willis, 44, after 13½ years at the company, was laid off last October. Says he: "I felt I would be coming back because we would get UTTAS. I wasn't thinking about getting a car or anything like that, but putting my daughter...
...stay in the state and to spend and invest their wages locally. But there are also the out-of-staters, "boomers," who come into Alaska generally to take as much money out of the state as they can. Those who succeed in getting jobs are, at the best, a drain on the Alaskan economy. But the out-of-staters who can't find work often resort to crime, which has skyrocketed since construction began in '73, in order to afford the state's high costs of living. Pipeline jobs are getting scarcer now, with about 10 miles of construction left...
...hands of big labor and big business, big education, and maybe big religion. If we should ever lose the individual's right to do more for himself or more for his family, I think one of the great character builders of this country will be down the drain. And once that goes down the drain, a lot of the character in our form of government likewise will be under constant jeopardy. We didn't get to be a great country by having the Government do all of that or labor do all of that or industry...