Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Mayor Richard J. Daley's administration. Backed by the city's large minority population. Washington will most definitely defeat Republican candidate Bernard Epton come April. And once the new administration takes office, the estimated 45,000 city employees who scratched backs with Daley and now-lame duck Mayor Jane Byrne may no longer be assured of a job and a fat paycheck each Friday...
Drummer Dennis Duck--at the concert confined to mitigating the disaster unfolding before him--is more effective on record helping the song's rhythms outlast their interruptions. And while producer Chris DesJardins (of the Flesheaters) also brought to the LP a sustaining thickness, it may not have been worth it. Chris D. (as the is credited) took the unevenness of the Syndicates FP Down There and thickens the sound. But while the effort may alike the group to play about without totally following its listeners, the playing needn't strakes all. More serious is the new sound's tendency...
Last December in the lame duck session, Congress tabled a bill that would have eliminated the mandatory retirement age, currently set at 70. The two sponsors of the bill, Sen. John Heinz (R-Penn.), and Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.), are expected to re-introduce the bill this spring. Universities, particularly Harvard, are strongly opposed to the bill and have been successful in securing a conditional amendment exempting universities from the law for 15 years after the bill's passage. Crimson reporter Lavea Brachman interviewed Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, last week and conducted a roundtable discussion with Morton...
...December of last year, President Reagan ran a five-cent-a-gallon increase in the gas tax through a lame duck Congress anxious to melt out of Washington for the Christmas holidays. The tax, which was signed into law on January 6, is designed both to raise more than $5 billion a year to rebuild the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, and to aid mass transportation. Coupled with the rise in the tax on fuel are increases in taxes on truck parts, truck road use, and truck sales. From the point of view of the American Trucking Association...
...U.S.S. New Jersey a sitting duck? Nonsense. As the last commanding officer of this great ship, I can tell you that a screaming eagle is far more appropriate...