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...legislators, along with schools such as Harvard, have already pointed out that entire new staffs would have to be created on campus and in Washington to correlate student aid rolls with lists of non-registrants. No central file exists with the names of all the people benefitting from the gargantuan tuition support network, and it remains unclear what precise role Congress envisions for the schools, which administer the loans and grants to middle and lower-class students. The Department of Education could asks the Harvard administration of turn over a list of all men currently enrolled and receiving...
...quest for happiness suffers gargantuan attacks: two family assassinations, two ordinary deaths, a single accident which kills one, blinds another and castrates a third. In addition, there are a number of near car accidents and several mentions of death, fear of dying and "the arc of a life." In the real world, both tragedy and joy occur in smaller doses than in Garp's universe. The film, like Irving's novel, occasionally seems somewhat fantastical and distant as a result. But every time a romance or a killing becomes too outlandish. Garp beams, or bellows, or frets, and his fear...
...certain to emerge during Shultz's Senate confirmation hearings later this month. Most of the attention is expected to focus on Bechtel's longstanding ties to the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, which helped the company to land the job of construction manager on the Saudis' gargantuan Jubail development project (see following story...
...picnics and barbecues this weekend, one thing that they can count on is being confronted with the following angry question: What in the world has gone wrong with Reaganomics? From the moment that President Ronald Reagan first proposed his fiscal 1982 budget 148 days ago, the mesmerizing specter of gargantuan federal deficits has haunted an already skittish U.S. economy. As the red ink has swelled, growth has sagged further and further, interest rates have lurched about unpredictably, and ever lengthening lines of jobless workers have begun coiling out from unemployment offices around the country...
Administration aides leave no doubt that this is a deliberate political game. The President is preparing to denounce Congress if it produces a budget resolution with gargantuan deficits, and to take the credit if it somehow passes a plan to stem the red ink. Reagan has been explicit on only one point, there must be no tampering with the third stage of his cherished income tax cuts, a 10% reduction that will take effect in July...