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...Deal, which most members of the Class of '30 alternately describe as 'a handout" and "a giveaway program" helped codify many of their ideas about the economy. "It's not only Carter but the whole socialist giveaway, welfare state, with its endless social programs and wasteful spending, begun under Roosevelt and propagandized by those like J.K. Galbraith and other college professors who accept good salaries and hope for tenure and long vacations, as well as sabbatical leaves, and yet so hypocritically criticize capitalism that provides this largesse for them," Gordon B. Worcester writes to his class. But Elliot, a lobbyist...
...Force sprayed Agent Orange heavily over Viet Nam to lay bare thousands of acres of jungle in which Viet Cong guerrillas were thought to be hiding. An Army handout for one such mission, Operation Ranch Hand in 1966, assured the troops that "the sprayed chemical is nontoxic to human or animal life." But Agent Orange was contaminated by a byproduct of the manufacturing process, dioxin, which is perhaps the most toxic synthetic chemical known. When a few pounds of it were released into the air by an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people...
...measure, however, is far from a pure giveaway. For one thing, the loan guarantee is not a handout but simply the Government's pledge to reimburse private parties for the money, up to $1.5 billion, that they lend to Chrysler if the auto firm is unable to repay the loans. This promise should enable Chrysler to return to the money markets that have been closed for the past year. The automaker, moreover, will pay the Treasury an annual fee of at least 1% of the sum guaranteed...
...counting usually takes five days, as candidates watch election workers pore over the ballots. Rumors--usually unsubstantiated--fly around the gym like bouncing basketballs, and often workers have to retrace their steps to find where an error has been made. But Cantabrigians love the system. One election commission handout calls it a "much more sophisticated way to choose representatives than the more common methods. It guarantees representation to minorities, whether they are political, ethnic or racial, and prevents voters from wasting their votes on candidates who have more than enough votes to win or who have no chance of winning...
...with St. John gone and the Crimson forced to look for a break--an interception, a fumble, or a handout--the defense had to press. The cornerbacks had to pull in tight, crowding the receivers early and facing one-on-one coverage deep. That, in the end, was a costly necessity...