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...elements are very close to what I've been saying have to be part of a compromise." Though White House aides found fault with the plan for its meager defense hikes and its politically explosive cuts in Social Security benefits, they were careful not to reject it outright. Domenici has made "a good-faith effort to come up with an alternative," said one presidential adviser. "We'll take a look...
Sure Penn's men's squash team used to be good Back in his heyday coach AI Mulloy won four national championships outright and shared a couple more with Harvard's Jack Batnaby As recently as late 1980 the Quakers caused genuine concern among the Crimson that they could be the wreakers in an other wise undefeated season...
...President's proposals, total spending by all departments and agencies of the Federal Government other than the Department of Defense would actually dip by $800 million in fiscal 1983, to $541.7 billion. Tiny though that figure is in terms of modern-day Government, it would represent the first outright decline in nondefense spending since the Eisenhower Administration, and it would come despite continued large increases in Social Security, medical benefits and interest paid on the national debt...
Flashes of outright seriousness do surface from time to time, but they slip away too quickly to allow a firm grip--which is very likely all for the best. Dan Rice, from all accounts, was a sunbeam; by the play's end he is already half sunk in twilight, dimmed by the onslaught of "modern contrivances" and the newborn industrial mentality. Try to portray a sunbeam a hundred and twenty years later and you may get a gleam of warmth: some charming laughs, perhaps; and, in the end, a confused sense of pleasure and a done of genuine perplexity...
...Blumenthal, after Blumenthal resigned in 1979 as Carter's Treasury Secretary. Then when Blumenthal was named vice chairman of Burroughs Corp., another Detroit area company (1981 sales: $3.4 billion), Agee reportedly tried to get himself the job as head of the computer manufacturer. Agee also considered buying Burroughs outright. Along the way through those maneuvers, he forced three Bendix board members to resign because of their ties to Burroughs...