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Kubacki, who led the Crimson to its first outright Ivy League title in 1975, is currently the athletic director and football coach at Middlesex School in Concord...
...inability of the nation's elected officials to come to grips in an effective way with the country's economic woes is causing widespread dismay that could soon enough begin turning into outright cynicism. Both the House and the Senate last week passed a budget resolution purporting to hold down 1983 deficit spending to no more than $103.9 billion, but not even the legislators seemed to believe in what they were doing. Admitted New York's Democratic Congressman Theodore Weiss: "It's a package wrapped in deceit, based on phony figures, erroneous assumptions and questionable projections...
Some dark clouds have begun to shadow even one of the few consistently bright spots in the economy: the steady wind-down in inflation. The inflation rate fell from 12% a year on the day that Reagan took office to outright deflation during March, when the purchasing power of the dollar actually inched fractionally upward. But last week consumer prices, which rose at an average annual rate of less than 2% in the first four months of the year, suddenly shot back up in May to a compound annual rate of 12.7%, pushed by increases in housing, food and energy...
...city councilors, many of whom represent areas particularly hard hit by unemployment, have voiced dissatisfaction with the employment plans proposed by these essentially white collar firms. One such program submitted recently to the council by one of the DNA firms was rejected outright by several councilors as inadequate. "We need to control what kind of industries come into the city." says Councilor David Sullivan. "I'm not suggesting that we bring in a steel plant, but we could have a technology manufacturing plant that makes for example, computer chips...
...often happens, the gifts one chooses for oneself can be too costly. Incensed taxpayers fired off 20,000 letters of protest, calling the tax break a backdoor pay raise on members' salaries of $60,662.50. Agreed Congressman Lawrence DeNardis of Connecticut: "It was outright legislative fraud and deceit...