Word: heights
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...power of the council has varied from President to President and chairman to chairman. The CEA's influence reached its height under Walter Heller, who advised Kennedy and Johnson and devised the very successful tax cut of 1964. Gardner Ackley, Heller's successor, recalls meeting with Johnson as often as three times a day. On occasion they talked economics while rambling around in a Jeep on L.B.J.'s ranch...
...information gathered will then be fed into computers. Classified data on weapon yields and height of bursts will be included as well. Still, there is no guarantee that all the mysteries of nuclear winter can be unraveled. Says Alan Hecht, director of the National Climate Program Office in Washington: "We're being asked to solve a question that is at the heart of meteorology today." In other words, if scientists cannot predict tomorrow's weather, how can they foresee the aftermath of World...
Unfortunately, Harvard also had the worst defense in the league, and to correct that, this year's team will rely on some added height and some added quickness from a dynamic duo that's new to Cambridge...
After the game, Delaney Smith marveled at her opponents. "They have what every coach wants," she said, "height, speed, experience, and depth...
...view, "everything points to the U.S.F.L., if you know what I mean." Riches are already whispered. "But for some reason, deep down inside, I just have a feeling I'll wind up in the N.F.L. I'm not the greatest athlete in the world, as far as height, speed, strength or anything else. But I'm a good blend ol a number of things," not the least of them...