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Tatrallyay, captain of this year's Crimson squad that tied for second place in the Ivies, won 11 of 15 league bouts to nail down the All-Ivy honors. For the entire season, Tatrallyay triumphed in 39 contests, while losing only...
...controls or increase a budget deficit already pushing toward $40 billion by more spending. Presumably a third would be to raise taxes. Democratic presidential contenders, he predicted, will choose a none-of-the-above option and talk only generalities. At the JEC hearings, Budget Boss George Shultz moved to nail down the Republican position on one of these alternatives by demanding a "moratorium" on any thought of raising taxes...
...establish who fired first, whether the paras were justified in their actions, and whether, as the Catholics firmly believe, the troops were acting under specific orders from Stormont, seat of the hated Ulster government. A British army spokesman insisted that the paratroopers had been attacked first with nail bombs and "a total of 200 rounds of ammunition fired indiscriminately in the general direction of the soldiers." He also said that the troops had fired only at "identified targets" -meaning gunmen and terrorists of the outlawed I.R.A. The British claimed that four of the dead men were on their "wanted" list...
...army's immediate report was later corroborated by Lord Balniel, Minister of State for Defense, in an address to Britain's House of Commons. According to his account, as the soldiers were arresting rioters, "they came under fire from gunmen, nail bombers and petrol bombers. Between 4:17 and 4:35 p.m., a number of these men were engaged. Some gunmen and bombers were certainly hit and some almost certainly killed. The soldiers fired in self-defense, or in defense of their comrades who were threatened. I reject entirely the suggestion that they fired indiscriminately into a peaceful...
...affiliated groups. We assume that Harvard men and women are intelligent enough to be able to make independent decisions about the relative prices and reliability of various charter outfits, and see nothing to be gained by forcing them to deal only with HSA, HSA, though it fought tooth-and-nail for this monopoly right, and though its rates are higher than the cheapest available, claims it makes no profit from charter flights. Michael Ryan's Minderbinderesque explanation was that "We get a cash flow out of Charter Flights rather than revenue," which--even ignoring questions of prevailing short-term interest...