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Hunt said that "a number of people who are making a jot of noise about animal research" have lobbied for passage of the legislation...
...study notes that the Atlanta Hawks once benched Jot Caldwell when he was averaging 20 points per game apparently because the team was "desperate for starting whites...
...press corps are encamped in Santa Barbara, all living fairly well, that being the way to live in Santa Barbara, but some going quietly mad nonetheless, as the President cuts and clears. Whenever Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes announces that the President is cutting and clearing today, reporters jot down "no news." Still, reporters and photographers are a brave lot and are taking in stride events like wine-tasting excursions to nearby vineyards, when they are not peering down at Rancho del Cielo with binoculars, praying for a sign. None is forthcoming. This is August. The President is on vacation...
...avoided and solutions to problems are found in a great middle way." He also warned against giving too much to the military: "Excessive expenditures for nonproductive items could, in the long run, destroy the American economy." He kept his word. In eight years his Pentagon budget varied scarcely a jot...
...incidents of violence, which was defined as "attempts to do bodily harm to a person." Judgments were necessarily subjective. An objectionable "sexual-intercourse scene" occurred whenever the monitor was "left with the opinion that sexual intercourse occurred," on screen or off, inside or outside marriage. Monitors were instructed to jot down what products were advertised on each program. Wildmon then calculated, by computer, the average incidence of sex, violence and profanity that a company sponsored per 30-sec. commercial. According to Wildmon, the monitors were recruited mostly from church groups and were trained by volunteers who showed video tapes...