Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard football team yesterday announced the election of junior linebacker Joe Azelby, for two years a mainstay on the best defense in the Ivy League, as its 110th captain...
Elsewhere in the South Seas of the '30s, TV viewers will come upon Jake Cutter, mainstay of the Tales of the Gold Monkey (ABC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), who is not as burly as Buck, and is subject to occasional bouts of malaria besides. A hard-times flyboy with a beat-up leather jacket and a Terry and the Pirates cap, Cutter finds himself enmeshed, often to his considerable chagrin, in a variety of exotic adventures having to do with lost treasures and old legends. Cutter, attractively played by Stephen Collins, darts around in a wreck of a seaplane...
...feel compelled to comment on Paul M. Barrett's recent flight of fancy entitled "Sis-Boom-Bah." Like Mr. Barrett, I bemoan the loss of many fine Harvard traditions. However, I am less dismayed over that decrease in "final club snobbery" than over the collapse of the old mainstay of journalism--accuracy. Call me old-fashioned and reactionary, but I long for a return to the ancient "VERITAS" standards...
...long been clear to any who are willing to see, that U S cooperation and hanks are the mainstay of the apartheid regime, and that an important below for South Africa's liberation could be struck by getting these corporations to pull out. As part of the effort to achieve this there has been a growing international Campaign to get church organizations and universities, which presumably are moral institutions, to pressure for such corporate withdrawal from South Africa. An important goal has been to get universities to sell off stocks and bonds of companies which continue to do large scale...
...scale according to ability to pay. Few private medical insurance companies will provide coverage, and with only a fraction of patients paying the full cost, the difference usually has to be patched together from a variety of sources, including private donations and United Way. Medicaid money, long a mainstay for nursing homes, is available for day care, but only for health-oriented facilities meeting stringent medical requirements. Some federal funds are also available under Title XX of the Social Security Act, but under the Reagan Administration, the total has been cut nearly...