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...Cliffe runners garnered 75.5 points, while the Big Green scored 60.5 and Williams totaled a meager 12 points...
...Brewster, 57, president of Yale University, to Great Britain. A confirmed Anglophile who vacations in England, Brewster has one apparent drawback: insufficient wealth. The appointment to the Court of St. James's has traditionally gone to those who could afford to supplement the U.S. embassy's presumably meager budget (currently $49,500) for entertainment and related expenses. However, Carter aides have vowed that personal wealth will not be an ambassadorial requirement in even the poshest post...
...crowd wanted aggressive boxing more than it wanted an Irish name on the card. Even Dorian's meager victory was greeted with scattered booing. Imagine, booing an Irishman on St. Patrick...
...Yankees retreated to the suburbs, the Irish learned to organize the wards, seize power and dispense the meager benefits of city hall patronage. But in the interests of city growth and a progressive image, they yielded in the 1960s to wrecking-ball blitzes, which savaged homogeneous neighborhoods, displaced the poor and forged a distrust of city hall and all governments beyond...
...Ways and Means Committee. "The Administration's package didn't really satisfy anyone," said Ullman, who began drafting his own plan. Ullman's attitude was widely shared by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans on the committee who felt that even Carter's meager proposal was too generous toward big businessmen and would not sufficiently cope with the unemployment problem. Instead they preferred a measure aimed directly at creating more jobs...