Word: fining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Jimmy Carter has the ingredients of a bad campaign, which already shows signs of descending into farce. Carter delivers pork barrel packages to primary states--coincidentally--around election time. He makes thudding insinuations about panic in a crisis. Kennedy castigates Carter for decontrolling home heating oil prices. Fine, except that Ford did it and Kennedy voted for it. Petty bickering breaks out between the two camps over whose version of the facts is more distorted; the issue of energy costs is trivialized. Veteran campaign watchers are predicting that this will be one of the nastiest campaigns in American history...
...Import Bank, discovered that Chinese pirates were very adept at blowing up Japanese ships, and he went to the offshore island of Quemoy to recruit them for the Allied cause. On the island, he remembers, he found himself living "in 12th century splendor. The pirates had stolen some very fine old furniture...
BROWN at DARTMOUTH--The Ivy game of the week brings together two of the Northeast's most worthless cities. Still, the football will be superb, though a fine day from Dave Shula won't be enough: Brown 20, Dartmouth...
Despite the fine performances expected from freshman Beckford and junior Johanna Forman, it will be tough to trust the Tiger's tail. Princeton boasts an 8-0 record in dual meets and will send seven harriers to the Nationals while Harvard's lone representative at that event will be Beckford, who qualified earlier this week with her eighth place finish in the Easterns...
...think he did a fine job with a tiny orchestra. But he inexplicably cut portions of the score--the prelude to "Wunderbar," for example--and slowed the tempo on several numbers to a despicable crawl. "Another Openin'. Another Show" sounded like a dirge...