Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign speaking schedule which took me to 30 states, from Florida to Alaska. I never worked harder, felt better or approached the new Congressional session with more enthusiasm, and if there is ever a problem with my health, I will be the first to say so. (My golf handicap was just cut by two strokes...
...costs of most income-maintenance schemes Would be vast-another formidable handicap. The most modest plan would cost about $4 billion more than today's welfare; the most ambitious would cost $30 billion more. Neither calculation, however, reckons the present system's potential cost, which, without any modifications, might continue to expand indefinitely. Eventually, even the most generous supplement plan might seem cheap by comparison. As it is, the U.S. spends less proportionally on social welfare than almost any other industrial country...
...breakfast table, a recording device is hidden in a tie clip, new leaders are found by a spin-the-bottle technique, and the real rapport between nations rests on a Jellolike foundation of friendship between Latifundia's President and the American ambassador. Despite the apparently insurmountable handicap of so familiar a scenario, Robert Wool has managed to produce a finely written first novel that explores the personality of a South American nation while revealing the lives and characters of two strong and complex men. Neither of them fits the good-guy, bad-guy stereotypes that infect not only this...
...finds that many dropouts who drop into the repair business never do learn the trade. Those with rare aptitude often find better-paying jobs with an airline, or even on an auto assembly line. Service under warranties, which cover about 10% of auto-repair business, suffers from an additional handicap. Dealers say that the automakers are niggardly with compensation for warranty work, allowing only a 25% profit margin for parts, compared with the 40% or more that a dealer can charge for nonwarranty work. As a result, dealers usually do warranty work only on cars that they have sold...
...seven-furlong $57,000 Vosburgh Handicap, the highest weight ever as signed by the track's handicapper in a regular stakes race. All the other horses carried 12 to 34 Ibs. less, but the Doc still turned the race into a scene from National Velvet. He broke swiftly out of the starting gate under Jockey Braulio Baeza, opened up a three-length lead in the stretch, then turned it on and charged home a full six lengths ahead of the place horse, Kissin' George...