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...older, reducing the automatic annual cost-of-living increase, tightening the scandalously lax $15 billion-a-year disability insurance program. But if the President fails to propose Changes or simply sets up another study group, he will make it clear that he has no stomach for a political hot potato...
Modern Government does not run on military and office equipment alone. Through the warehouse come potter's wheels, musical instruments, looms, stretchers, record players, 50-lb. boxes of nails, humidity gauges, bottles of chemicals, screwdrivers and pliers of every shape and size, salt-tablet dispensers, ear slugs, potato peelers, X-ray film projectors, buckets of paint, faucets, even 59 forceps for delivering babies...
Credit the Cannes moguls for one thing. They know when to drop a cold potato. Except for The Apple, an Israeli version of The Wiz, and a pathetic promotion for Can't Stop the Music, there was no mention of disco...
Cambridge's first Irish immigrants were poor and pious, displaced from their farms or starved out by the potato rot which struck in 1845. With neither the money nor the supplies to follow the Germans and the Swedes inland, they found jobs in the city's new factories and settled in tenements along the river...
...reports that the voting list in 1822 contained 481 names, of which only four sounded even "vaguely foreign." Even as late as 1848, only 25 names sounded foreign, but by 1855 there were 1420 Irish and 587 Scots here. The Irish had begun settling in 1830, and after the potato famine their ranks swelled. By 1880, there were at least 15,000 first-generation immigrants, including 8366 from Ireland, 3981 from Canada and the West Indies, 1396 from England, 636 from Germany, 169 from Sweden and 36 from Italy...