Word: letter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South House Committee voted last week to send a letter to B&G asking that fences again be placed around the lawn, committee chairman Marc J. Sobil '80 said yesterday...
...national discipline; but congressional budget-makers each year would have to work with that symbol, which could never be thorough enough to cover the wealth of specific problems in a national budget. Nor could it be specific enough to discourage innovative congressional accountants from balancing the budget to the letter but not the spirit of the amendment...
Yates was only too glad to leave when his hearing came before the Dover-Foxcroft District courtroom. Though he was able to write a long letter, read as many paperbacks as he wanted to and watch T.V.--"Ironically the movie on Sunday night was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'"--Yates realized that "time goes very slowly. You're trapped. You've nothing to do except what you can generate yourself. Ten days in jail would have been too much. One hundred days would have been out of the question...
...letter to the Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Yates wrote "It is my belief that every person should have the fundamental right to make decisions regarding his or her own fate and to be able to accept the consequences of those decisions. The government should not have to be responsible for protecting me from myself. As long as I am the only one affected by my actions, there should be no need for the government to interfere. I judged myself capable of completing the climb and willing to accept the risk of injury or failure. Who else is as familiar...
...apparent that strategic misrepresentation is to be encountered not only in the business world, but also in the world of journalism," one letter begins. Another, addressed to Fouraker, calls Raiffa "a man whose honesty and compassion earn him the admiration and affection of those who, like myself, are lucky enough to know...