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...accounted for more than half the trade deficit. Though last fall's budget deliberations did produce a token 5 cents-per-gal. increase in federal gasoline taxes, the possibility of further levies may have been scuttled when Republican pollster Robert Teeter found that Reagan Democrats were the idea's fiercest opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of the Union: So Who's Minding The Store? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Harvard's offense, recently led by the top Donato-Ciavaglia-Vukonich line, is among the fiercest in the ECAC. It was that cold November night in Hanover when Coach Ronn Tomassoni gave birth to the prolific line, which netted six tallies in its debut...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Hapless Dartmouth Challenges Icemen | 12/15/1990 | See Source »

Senior Renard Charity and junior Leon Newsome compose one of the fiercest tandems in the league. The game should pose a test for the Tom Callahan-less Harvard offensive line. Callahan, the team captain, is out for the season with a back injury...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Gridders Seek Sweet Revenge Today At Princeton | 10/20/1990 | See Source »

Every time Lazarre-White dropped back to pass, there seemed to be at least two Purple People Eaters waiting for him, prompting Harvard Coach Joe Restic to label the Holy Cross pressure the fiercest his teams have faced, "anytime, anywhere...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Take Care of the Hands That Get You Sacked 12 Times | 10/2/1990 | See Source »

...burned out of their home in a fatal arson. Not even this makes them sympathetic. They remain a bitter if invigorating tonic, to be taken in carefully measured doses. But they are mean-spirited fun. Barnard, an acute and merciless chronicler of Britain's middle classes, is at his fiercest in showing how the proper bourgeoisie reacts to, and is repeatedly bested by, the convention-scorning Phelans. The story's most intense drama is generated not by the search for the killer, but by the question of whether the one decent-seeming Phelan, an amiable schoolboy, is for real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who And Why | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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