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Cleary has confidence that Watson can lead the team. "The players respect Mike as a person--he is one of the hardest workers on this team and people notice that," Cleary said...
Harvard officials speculated that the Polish authorities' apparent change of attitude may have come out of liberalizing efforts of labor and intellectual unrest in Poland, although Fanger noted that Baranczak, because of his extensive dissident activity, "was one of the hardest pills for [the government] to swallow...
...nothing new to say that inflation hits the poor the hardest. But lately, inflation has gotten so bad that the middle class has added its collective voice to cry for help. Reagan's economic package will rely on two basic measures, tax-cuts and expenditure cuts, to cure the nation's now chronic ills of low productivity and low growth. Legislators should concentrate their efforts on making sure that cuts in federal programs are aimed not at those who can least afford them, the urban poor, but at inefficiencies in the government bureaucracy, and especially the Defense Department. They should...
...lunch in an eighth-floor dining room, where most of the bankers shunned available liquor and chose hearty salads to eat, the participants returned to the conference room to recalculate the interest owed the Iranians. Bank of America, which held the largest amount of Iranian funds, was arguing the hardest. Their work was somewhat slowed because few of the bankers had brought calculators, and some ended up doing their math longhand. Eventually, the bankers agreed to pay almost 17% annual interest. They were generally pleased when they concluded work...
...England has been struck hardest by the cold, with record lows in every state. In East Haven, Vt, the temperature was heading toward a record -50° when the local weather station thermometer broke at -40°. Compounding the bone-chilling blast was a shortage of natural gas, particularly in Boston. Governor Edward King ordered businesses to set thermostats at 55° and closed all Massachusetts schools heated by natural gas. Says one utility executive: "He won't need to announce other actions if conservation doesn't work. There won't be any gas." Estimates are that...