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Alley Katz, Alley Katz make me meow, meow, meow...
...Jimmy Carter's more memorable phrases was his description of his energy bill as "the moral equivalent of war." But the Administration has stumbled so badly in trying to get the program through Congress that the campaign has come to be known by the biting acronym MEOW. A major roadblock during the past five months has been a bitter and largely nonpartisan free-for-all on Capitol Hill over the removal or retention of Government price controls for natural gas. Last week, just a year after Carter first invited the nation into the trenches, the gas deadlock finally appeared...
...solve the energy dilemma. After asking Americans to wage "the moral equivalent of war" in meeting "the greatest challenge that our country will face during our lifetime," Carter put forward proposals that were hardly draconian. (Humorist Russell Baker observed that the acronym for moral equivalent of war is MEOW.) Indeed, if the financial discomfiture was to be as minimal as the Administration was claiming at week's end, the essential changes for Americans would be ones of habit and life-style?but those could prove more painful than dollar losses...
...barrage of rights and lefts in the second round did the damage. Williams was saved by the bell the third time he went down and had time for one last meow before Clay finally put him away...
...final score--88 to 82--was relatively close, but the Tigers couldn't muster up more than a meow all night; Harvard jumped ahead 20-8, built up an 18-point lead in the fourth quarter, and then coasted home...