Word: loses
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...water projects. But Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd brushed aside that reasoning. Said he: "This is a battle that you can do without. It's going to boil over into other problem areas that are really more important to you. As of today, the [$50 tax] rebate would lose badly. But it is potentially winnable, if the water project irritant can be removed." Carter coolly replied, "I don't think that as President of the United States, this is the time for me to go bartering votes on the tax package for dams...
Presidential Assistants Hamilton Jordan and Frank Moore (who is in charge Of congressional relations) enter the President's office at 9:45. They discuss the Administration's foreign aid request. "We're going to lose Africa," Carter says to Moore, "if we don't do something to help those poorer countries." Moore is instructed to tell Congress that "we've got to have some way to meet the challenge." On the subject of congressional recalcitrance over the $50 tax rebate, Moore tells the President: "[Senate Majority Leader Robert] Byrd called in four people yesterday...
...took to the court for several brisk sets of tennis. Still, though he is as hard as a spike at 6 ft., 170 Ibs., the champ was not satisfied. "My return of serve is out the window, and I'm not in shape," he complained. "I need to lose six or seven pounds this month to get ready for the outdoor season...
...representation!" Once again that shrill cry was heard from rebellious New Englanders as some of the residents of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard voted last week to secede from Massachusetts-and sported secession bumper stickers. They were protesting a redistricting plan under which Martha's Vineyard would lose the seat that it has had in the state legislature for 285 years (TIME, March 21). In the unlikely event the islands cast themselves off, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island have offered to take them under their banner. Meanwhile, some of the summer crowd are lobbying for total...
...judge continued, cannot self-censor every opinion expressed in their books; if they did, free speech would vanish. Hotchner, in Paris to write another book, greeted the news of the court's decision with a stoic composure under adversity that Hemingway would have admired: "You win some, you lose some...