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...time he departed in 1977, Washington was entrenched as a one-sport town. Even in its championship season of 1978, the Washington Bullets professional basketball team attracted only polite support. Enthusiasm for the local hockey team, the Capitals, and various college teams in the vicinity is also meager. In contrast, the Redskins have sold out 122 consecutive home games, the league record by far. Meanwhile, Texans wholeheartedly embrace only two sports, as Jones Ramsey, the venerable University of Texas promoter, pronounced some years ago: "Football and spring football...
...money required to qualify for the added federal funds. The states, moreover, have long been far more willing to raise gasoline and other user taxes and fees than has the Federal Government. From 1959 until it was finally hiked this week, the federal gas tax had remained at a meager 4?, and in 1959 dollars had actually decreased to 1.4?. Through all the years of relative prosperity, Presidents and Congress had given federal-highway users virtually a free ride...
...disagree with your assessment that John Kennedy was not a great President because "his accomplishments were meager." If that is the criterion, then Thomas Jefferson, whose only significant achievement was the Louisiana Purchase, would not qualify for greatness...
...years from 1933 to 1961, we had one great President, F.D.R., and two very good ones, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. None of the next six could be put in either of those categories. John Kennedy perhaps had a potential for greatness; the actual accomplishments of his presidency were meager. However, his short presidency and Gerald Ford's short presidency, for all the differences of style, were the best, or least unsuccessful, of the 1960s and 1970s. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation was a noble achievement (though the programs went wildly out of control). But the L.B.J...
...takes in through a defective filter that tends to get clogged with sand. And they also need a lot of fuel (much more than the M-60), so the M-1 has to be followed into battle with a fuel truck Each of these miracle fighting machines costs a meager $2.7 million...