Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit, the Cambridge City Council has not ignored all the commotion. Councilor David Sullivan initiated an official review of the city's traditional creche sponsorship, and the city manager's office is expected to respond with a recommendation by Monday. Quick action is in order. Cambridge should dissociate itself with the Brattle Square Nativity display in keeping with the Rhode Island ruling and the blunt First Amendment stipulation prohibiting government activity "respecting an establishment of religion." Designed to prevent Congress or municipalities from advocating a particular spiritual belief, that passage clearly requires a city to refrain from even tacit endorsement...
...request for Israel from $2.5 billion to nearly $3 billion. The increase included $350 million in military assistance. "We are now at a touchy time," said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg. "The danger of this bill is that it would make it far more difficult to bring about a quick and easy settlement in Lebanon." In the longer run, it would also weaken the U.S.'s " credibility in this region, and therefore any attempt to neutralize the P.L.O. hard-liners by encouraging negotiations leading to a settlement that moderate Palestinians can accept. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Johanna...
...Miss Piggy, it will be an exercise-beauty-tip plan for which she has already received a $275,000 advance from New American Library. Welch, who has been warming up for her task by practicing on a new $10,000 word processor, says that unlike other get-fit-quick books, hers will emphasize that "the mind and the body are connected." She hasn't actually started writing "the book" yet, but between appearances on Broadway in Woman of the Year, the actress has taken that first step in celebrity authorhood: talking into a tape recorder...
...first few minutes, the home team took a quick lead, with defenseman Steve In gle hart slamming one home from the point right off a face off and with the Big Red pummeling every Crimson jersey in sight. But after blueliner Mike Schafer put Burke on the ice for several minutes with a devastating check, the Crimson started skating and turning away from the Big Red hits...
Even though the hoopsters played a much stronger game than in its previous four losses, some characteristic problems still surfaced. After jumping to a quick 6-0 lead in the first minutes of play. Harvard seemed to forget that the game would last another 36 minutes. The hoopsters waited five minutes before adding to their six-point total, and in the meantime, Holy Cross took the lead for good. But Harvard did start rebounding consistently for the first time this season, snagging 10 more than a taller Holy Cross team...