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...punish the society that had put them there. Hence the dreadful reputation of OSHA. Eula Bingham, who became director in 1977, worked a near miracle in her time, changing most of all OSHA'S low state of mind. But that was only one small corner of this monstrous federal machine, which in days gone by was welcome in hamlets and cities everywhere...
...These decisions will affect his proposed tax cuts and his plans to increase money for defense. They will also bear on whether or not he will have to cut real social welfare programs, not the "fat" he is accustomed to citing. On top of these, he faces rising unemployment, monstrous interest rates and U.S. industries (like cars) that are running on square wheels. And there are difficulties that are his, which he may not see. What happens to a black teen-ager in Harlem or Watts in a free enterprise system that leaves him free to go to hell...
...puts it, he and his brother are both "city coyotes." Lee is also enough of a raconteur and Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, etc., golfer to con Austin's movie producer, Saul Kimmer (Louis Zorich), into buying his unwritten cornpone saga of the "true West." Saul is one of those monstrous Hollywood moths who skirt the flames of venality, yet never get torched. All three men are the progeny of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, that emetically funny moral jeremiad hurled with lethal precision at the cynic American psyche...
...years ago, the U.S. was ahead of the U.S.S.R. in the art of MIRVing and could probably have obtained a moratorium in SALT I. But the Pentagon, eager to preserve a U.S. advantage, blocked the idea. The Soviets soon mastered the technology and began putting MIRVS on their own monstrous rockets...
While placing behind Trenton State, John Carroll College, Columbia and UMass, the Crimson performance was highlighted by the individual championship of sophomore heavyweight Jim Phills. He had to tangle with some monstrous grapplers over the weekend to come home with the crown, because the weight class has no upper limit...