Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House members generally agree that the budget will be the main item of busi ness this session and that it should be as lean as possible. Even liberals acknowledge that the nation's problems do not appear to yield to money and to Government intervention. "We haven't had the pruning of the programs that don't work," admits Abner Mikva, a leading liberal Democrat who was re-elected from Chicago's North Shore suburbs by a scant 1,000 votes. "Because of that, all of Government is carrying a burden of presumed incompetence and inefficiency...
...unlikely to repeat either the phrasing or the tone of his last public speech in the U.S., at a U.N. forum in 1974. Then he ridiculed U.S. efforts to search for peace, blasted "the two superpowers," and pronounced that, in the world as a whole, "revolution is the main trend." With his skillful sense of self-promotion and public relations, Teng this time will most likely project a far more beneficent image...
There are some new items on the menu, however. Meatless alternates to the main course--such as "mock" cheeseburgers and rice and cheese casserole--have been added in the past two years to cater to the tastes of vegetarians. In principle, at every meal there should be one meatless alternate, Raven said...
...Quad, students seem to consider Currier House the mecca of fine dining. There--and at all the Quad Houses--you can ask for a hamburger if you don't like the main course...
Marciano also blamed utility lines from the city of Cambridge for the back-up. "When the main water lines are blocked, everything goes wrong," he said...