Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...note, defenseman Bobby Fowkes has definitely been lost for the rest of the season due to academic difficulties...
...worried about the budget's inflationary impact and would have preferred a smaller deficit than the $61 billion now estimated. Liberals, on the other hand, feel betrayed by Carter's refusal to allocate greater resources to fighting joblessness and urban ills and for public health. They note that Carter, who ran on a platform of reducing defense outlays, submitted a military budget calling for a 3% increase in spending, discounted for inflation, to $117.8 billion. Liberals are vowing to get a larger share of the pie for social welfare programs this year, while conservatives are equally determined...
Through all the budget process, there was the note that Carter was not fully convinced that Government could really deliver many of the thousands of promises that its budget said it could. So a zero dropped here, a restraint applied there sounded the most persistent theme. He wants to show the American people that his Government will try to stay out of their lives as much as possible...
...three-year contract stipulating that if he left early, he would have to buy up his contract. For the privilege of earning $35,000 annually in the prestigious top job at Missouri, Powers had to shell out $5,000 in escape money and take out a three-year promissory note for the remaining $50,000 at 9% interest. Powers, a onetime defensive back for the Oakland Raiders, views the move to Missouri as a boon to his career, however costly it may be. Says he: "The coaching profession is a very precarious one anyway. The same people that love...
Sometimes the play slides into fantasy, too: the apartheid rules are so ridiculous at times they can only be treated as a bitter joke. An episode with a talking toilet that is reserved for whites only is funny, but there is an acid note somewhere not too far in the background...