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...that a really sharp increase in teachers' salaries might have even greater effect. I don't know. The point is that in making proposals of this kind, which call for a massive allocation of public funds, we ought to get into the habit of reviewing the research at the outset and stating our case for moving contrariwise if that is our wish. How else is public confidence to be maintained...
Also aboard were a barrel of beer and plenty of bottles of assorted other spirits. "If I have a craze for anything -sorry if this sounds bad-it's generally drink," confesses Chichester. "I know pretty well at the outset whether it's going to be a rum voyage, a gin voyage or a Mackeson [beer] voyage...
Jeff Grate had four fouls within minutes, so he couldn't do much for the rest of the half. And Royer, who appeared extremely nervous at the outset, never recovered. He blew a couple of easy shots inside and he didn't take his shot when he had it. As a result, Floyd Wilson was effectively working with only...
...first bullet fired by Oswald passed through Kennedy's neck, then hit Governor Connally's back and exited through his chest, damaging his right wrist and left thigh successively. Epstein discloses that three Commission members -- Senators Russell and Cooper and Representative Boggs -- disbelieved Specter's hypothesis from the outset. But the Report papered over this difference of opinion with the assertion that the single-bullet theory "is not necessary to any essential findings...
...outset, the 1966 campaign in the East seemed to presage danger for incumbents of both parties. Pundits and pollsters alike heralded the political demise of New York's Republican Gover nor Rockefeller, foresaw some uncertainties in the futures of Massachusetts' Governor Volpe, New Hampshire's Democratic Governor John King and New Jersey's Republican Senator Case. As a result, edgy incumbents in the twelve Eastern states fought like Trojans. And, instead of a year to "Throw the Rascals Out," 1966 wound up as the year in which Eastern voters decided overwhelmingly to "Keep...