Word: raced
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...budget summiteers in Washington seemed to feel no such ground swell, at least not last week. The group is losing a race against the calendar for an agreement on a bipartisan package of spending reductions and revenue increases before Nov. 20, when $23 billion in arbitrary cuts will take hold under the Gramm-Rudman law. The committee began the week with optimism all around, based on a plan proposed by House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois that would cut the deficit by $30 billion in fiscal 1988 and $45.5 billion in 1989. Michel's proposal was considered a breakthrough...
...then there is AIDS. Goldsmith repeatedly brings it up in conversations. He believes it threatens to kill most of the human race -- "it could be up to 98% of mankind." This champion of individual enterprise urges that the U.S. join with the despised Soviets and "pool their resources in a massive research effort to find a way to prevent the spread of AIDS." "The thing about Jimmy," says Olivier Todd, whom Goldsmith fired as editor of L'Express for favoring the Socialists in the 1981 election, "is that he's an English eccentric in the best sense of the term...
...race to beat the morning rush hour, a bus filled with at least 70 workers and schoolchildren, some as young as twelve, was speeding toward Mexico City along the Tlahuac-Chalco highway. Suddenly the driver lost control in a dense patch of fog. The bus lurched off the shoulder, flipped over and plunged into a muddy, 9-ft.-deep corner of Lake Xico, a sewage-fouled lagoon. Rescue workers freed nine survivors (one later died) and recovered 39 bodies within a few hours. About 20 passengers escaped, but another 20 or so were presumed dead inside...
Bart, as he also let his Yale minions call him, was of course a legendary Red Sox fan and is a rumored candidate to replace baseball impressario Peter V. Ueberroth should the commissioner, as expected, enter politics with a race for president of Austria. (Polls indicate a "Vote Ueberroth, He's an Uebbermensch" campaign is a surething.) But the legendary Red Sox fan has begun to drop subtle hints that his year at the helm of the Senior Circuit has tempered any hopes he may have harbored to be appointed philosopher-king of the national pastime...
Goalie to the Stars: The Crimson's sharpest shooters may be a little more widely dispersed than they were last year, but like the past two years, a Crimson netminder heads the conference goals-against-average race...