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Against the Elis, Harvard began the day's action father sloppily, losing several potential points to shaky serving. At the same time, the Bulldogs delivered potent serves, as the Crimson had difficulty organizing a consistent receiving game...
...right tackle Greg Brown, out of action last week because of a hyperextended knee. Without him, Harvard halfbacks Scott McCabe and Tim McGugan combined for 182 yards and three TDs last week, but having Brown, an All-Ivy selection, up front should make the pair an even more potent double threat...
...problem, as the chairman of the special task force that drew up the drunk driving legislation stresses, that some of his committee's most potent legislation failed to gain state legislative approval, in spite of King's support. Which is too bad--the measures that the legislature left by the wayside are needed for any program that realistically hopes to curb drunk drivers. They include laws that would...
Stevenson, who decided in 1979 not to seek a third Senate term, mainly pounds away at one potent issue: the flaccid economy. In a detailed, 200-page campaign exegesis, he proposes luring pension-fund investments to Illinois and encouraging high-tech industries. During a debate earlier this month that rapidly turned acrimonious, he accused Thompson of presiding over the worst economic decline in the U.S., citing the state's 12.2% unemployment rate and soaring debt. Stevenson, who later accused the Governor of "subterfuge and deception" to conceal his failures, tried to justify the snappish tone: "I'm portrayed...
...Candidate Reagan promised to abolish Carter's creation. But nearly two years later, stymied by congressional opposition, he hasn't. In fact, the Department of Education (ED), with a $14 billion annual budget, 5,000 employees and an articulate Cabinet Secretary, Terrel Bell, is as controversial and potent a force in American education as it has ever been, operating at the cutting edge of many major issues...