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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Long has devised a method to furtively reach into the pockets of American consumers. The wily Southerner has thus found a solution to Edmund Burke's perennial problem: "To tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to man." Long seems to reply to Burke by suggesting that if politicians disguise their taxes, they can please the public, take its money and still get re-elected. With unfounded audacity, Senator Long claims that the VAT is the "least painful way of collecting money," over-looking the regressive nature of this tax. Long...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: Not VAT Again | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

After surviving a two-man down situation, ten minutes into the second period, the Crimson immediately found itself two men up, as two Terrier penalties, 20 seconds apart, gave them a sterling opportunity to score the go-ahead goal...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Overtime Goal Lifts Icemen Over B.U. | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...looks like it was a set fire," University police Captain Jack Morse said yesterday, adding that the police found a can of charcoal lighter fluid on the ground to the left of the building's entrance...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Police Investigate 17 Quincy St. Fire | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

Hercules kept probing, trying to find Arnold the Man. It was obvious the guy had a tremendous ego, although this didn't bother Hercules, he had dealt with oceanic egos, he had one himself. He even found it appealing: here was a hero, a man who would move the world with a large enough lever and his own belief in himself. "I set a goal and I go after it...I'm not at all tense about it. I visualize it, I see it in front of me that it will happen, and then it's just a matter...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Earth, goodwill toward people, spend money. Want to drown out those obnoxiously cheery-faced little carollers outside in the street? Try playing some records. We went sleighing over hills and dales, to grandma's and the North Pole, to find the best Christmas albums for you. And we found them in a stocking over a big fireplace somewhere in Greenland. But we lost them. So we reviewed these albums instead...

Author: By Eric B. Fried and Susie Spring, S | Title: Hark! the Herald Cashiers Ring | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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