Word: oklahomas
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...goal line, Shaffer said straightforwardly, "The pattern was good, the protection was good, the throw was short. They were all bad throws. They killed us. It's just too bad that the performance of one person can have so much to do with the outcome of the game. Oklahoma was awfully good too." He paused. "When I came off the field after each interception, there were still 120 guys around me. That's what's so neat about this team...
Though Switzer must have out-coached Joe Pa, if only in the area of sideline composure, Oklahoma's good-times coach was as graceful and considerate later as Shaffer. "In the '50s, coaches may have made the difference," he said, "but you don't outcoach anymore. Players win now." With a sigh not a bellow, Switzer proclaimed, "We survived Bowl Day. That gives us the national championship." As for next year, he advised pretenders, "You've got to be good, got to be lucky and got to have other people help you." Oklahoma's aid came from New Orleans, where...
...pass a seat-belt bill. On New Year's Day, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico and California had all snapped in, bringing to 13 the number of states now requiring motorists to buckle up or pay fines of as much as $50. By mid-1987, when Louisiana, Indiana and Oklahoma will have joined the list, nearly 58% of the U.S. will be covered. Experts question the long-term effectiveness of such laws, however, pointing out that compliance wanes rapidly. While 69% of New York motorists buckled up a year ago, after the state passed the nation's first seat-belt...
...budgetary decisions are being made without proper discussion. Under pressure two weeks ago, the Pentagon said that the cost of the Stealth bomber would be no more than 2% or 3% higher than that of the military's most recent long-range bomber, the B-1B. But according to Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar, Stealth may cost as much as $600 million a copy, twice the nearly $300 million current price...
Accordingly, among the most intent observers were some 20 members of Congress, including two of the law's chief sponsors, Republican Senators Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, and one of its main opponents, Congressman Mike Synar, the Oklahoma Democrat who with eleven other members of Congress from both parties brought suit last December to invalidate the law. The legislation establishes declining annual deficit targets until the goal of a balanced budget is reached in fiscal 1991; failure by Congress and the President to meet those tar gets means that the Comptroller, who heads the General...