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Despite center-right warnings, the voters still lean left...
...This is in remarkably lean shape as plays go. When you're dealing with this type of play you must have a cleanness of structure in advance or you're nowhere. With straight dramas you sometimes end up cutting half an act, but Deathtrap is like a house of cards--you can't pull one out without toppling the whole structure. We're clarifying in some places, and trimming a little fat, but we're already in opening-night shape...
...economy, too, Carter made bows to right and left. There were his proposals for a $25 billion cut in income taxes and a "lean and tight" budget, which should have pleased conservatives. Yet there was also an expanded program of public service jobs for unemployed young people, and strong endorsement for "early passage of a greatly improved Humphrey-Hawkins bill." While that pronouncement cheered liberals, it was not as sharply in conflict as it seemed with Carter's view of governmental nonintervention. The "improved" Humphrey-Hawkins bill sets a five-year goal of reducing unemployment to 4% (from...
They often seem to dominate congressional hearings as they lean forward to supply legislators with shrewd questions that befuddle a committee opponent, or dazzling answers that sew up an argument. Their rising influence and expertise are among the reasons for the resurgent role of the U.S. Congress...
...weighty things were not on the minds of the Long Island bird watchers. By mid-morning the group had spotted 36 different species, slightly shy of the figure at that hour during the previous year's count. "Not really too good," shrugged Leader Paul Stoutenburgh, 50, a tall, lean, high school teacher and part-time naturalist. "Perhaps we're just not as sharp-eyed as we should be today...