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...Huntington Avenue, many imported cars were in evidence. As were many loafers from Gucci's. The brue blazer index had sky rocketed...
Chafin was accused of assaulting Steven R. Verr '79 on February 10. Verr, now a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, testified yesterday that, after he called Chafin a "lackey," the chief jabbed him with his index finger, grabbed him in a headlock, and "pummeled...
Despite such mistakes, the final fight on the House floor provided a fair index of the philosophic differences between the Administration and its Democratic opponents. By the time that battle began, Congressmen of both parties had agreed to make about 85% of the 1982 budget cuts Reagan sought, slashing urban mass transit subsidies, long-term unemployment compensation and milk for nursing mothers, among many other programs. But the majority of Democrats fought hard to limit reductions in some major "entitlement" programs, which provide benefits for anyone who meets certain qualifications. The defenders were overridden by a coalition of Republicans...
...testify, individual signals have a way of misfiring just as easily, with results just as calamitous if not as earthshaking. The danger of misunderstanding increases dramatically when even the most elementary signals are used by people in different cultures. The happiest of overt American signals, the circled thumb and index finger, unless accompanied by a smile, amounts to an insult in France. The innocent American habit of propping a foot on a table or crossing a leg in figure-four style could cause hard feelings among Arabs, to whom the showing of a shoe sole is offensive...
...recent years two forces have thrown the system out of kilter. One is the outdated Government index known as "parity." Its purpose is to make sure that milk retains, relatively speaking, the same value in 1981 that it had before World War I. Improvements in dairy technology have now boosted productivity dramatically, but the rickety parity index has never been updated, causing the price of milk to stay artificially high...