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...Tories will trim $3 billion from the Labor government's last budget, including aid to local governments for public housing and other programs. But Thatcher's Social Services Secretary, Patrick Jenkin, later offered a supplement to the budget that provided unexpectedly large increases in such personal benefits as old age pensions and maternity allowances. That calculated benevolence may not be of much help to many Britons as they try to cope with a new round of inflation...
...Under Jenkin's leadership Harvard had its best Ivy record in three years (9-5), although its overall record of 11-13 was the first dip below .500 ball in four years...
...loss, which dropped Harvard's record to 1-3, came a week after Tom Sanders's squad pulled a 65-64 win over Dartmouth out of the fire. Tony Jenkin's technical foul shot, after an illegal sixth timeout called by a Big Green player, with zero time on the clock produced Sanders's first coaching win. (Incidentally, both the AP and this reporter are guilty of stating no time remained in that game, when actually a fraction of a second was left before the buzzer...
Only captain Tony Jenkin's technical foul shot after the buzzer salvaged a victory. With less than one second left and the score tied at 64-64, a confused Dartmouth player called an illegal sixth timeout. Jenkins sank the resulting technical foul shot to give Sanders his first coaching...
Editors have an occupational weakness for striking holier-than-thou attitudes, especially on the subject of newspaper ethics. Last week the subject got a refreshingly candid airing from Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 46, editor of the Jones family's Tulsa Tribune and recently president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In a lecture at the University of Kansas, where he won the first certificate of editorial leadership awarded by the William Allen White Foundation, Jones said: "We often tell our readers only half-truths. We are constantly sweeping facts under the rugs...