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...however, and Congress goes its own unfathomable way, no one can predict what the outcome will be. Quite possibly, the resulting budget would be unacceptable to Reagan, thereby producing a presidential veto. That could lead to a new period of confusion and stalemate, which, at the very least, would halt all progress toward economic recovery...
...Monday, the Corporation decided not to support an ACSR-recommended resolution that would require the IBM Corp.--in which Harvard owns more than $50 million worth of stock--to halt all of its operations in South Africa...
...Black and White had luck on its side as a Tiger rower accidentally jumped her seat at the beginning of the race and the Princeton boat came to a virtual halt. "Princeton thought that the race should have been stopped because of its equipment failure, so they stopped rowing. But when the timers said `keep rowing' they had a lot of ground to make up on us and so they started all over again." Margie McHugh, the varsity captain, said yesterday...
...crippled, law enforcement impaired, and even snow removal curtailed. Last year, the cuts meant paring $13.4 million from the city budget, including firing more than 100 employees from the school department alone. If the slide continues. Cambridge might as well go out of business as a city altogether. To halt the decline, city voters must run out to the polls in record numbers today, and vote in favor of two referendums to override Prop...
...almost as if it were about to take off again. Mission controllers had a brief, horrifying vision of the nose gear thudding back down on the hard desert floor and collapsing under the jolt. But Lousma gently leveled the ship off and let it roll out to a halt. Initially, NASA officials speculated that Columbia's lurching might have been caused by an unexpected gust of wind. But later they insisted that Lousma had eased the stick back, probably to slow the ship down...