Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always, fortunately, the Crimson, defensive backfield is a strength. Back Steve Potysman and adjuster Tom "Bat" Masters on will more than hold their own, while Fred Cordova, Al Ippolito and sophomore Mike Jacobs should fill up the rest of the four slots competently...
...backfield in the Ivies returns, featuring bona fide pro prospect Ron Brown. This unit is a couple of linebackers (co-captain Neil Jacob is kaput for the season with a broken arm) and a defensive lineman away from being devastating. As it stands now they'll just have to hold their ground while Whipple and Farnham do the rest...
There are suspicions, however, that security is no longer Israel's sole reason for trying to hold on to the lands it conquered eleven years ago. The fiercely devout Begin has introduced a troubling religious factor into the argument by maintaining that events related in the Old Testament give Israel a historic claim to the West Bank. He even insists on calling the region by its Biblical names of Samaria and Judea. He declared to the Knesset: "We did not take strange land; we returned to our homeland. The tie between our nation and this land is eternal...
Meanwhile, what to do with the money will be a problem. More will be invested in developing new kinds of energy-shale oil, solar power, coal gasification-but the Sisters expect utility-type regulation by governments that will hold down their return. There is still strong sentiment in Congress to limit, though not forbid, acquisitions in non-oil energy fields. Acquisitions of completely unrelated businesses, like Mobil's link with Marcor, probably will be held back both by political opposition and by :he feeling of most oil managements that they should stick to fields in which petroleum expertise...
...TIPS or tax-based income policies that must be passed by Congress. One was devised by Economist Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution, the other by Henry Wallich, a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Okun's plan would give tax credits to workers and employers who hold down wages and prices. Wallich's idea is to impose tax penalties on those firms granting inflationary pay boosts or setting excessive prices. Both plans would be cumbersome but, as public frustration over inflation grows, some kind of TIP seems more and more feasible...