Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost a mile into the race, a chance to reach our first goal arose. Colgate University (number 39) was ahead and by some grace of God we were gaining on them. Only our cox, Lisa, really knew that we were approaching them, since we were supposed to keep our eyes in the boat (or else you get rocks in it, or something...
...from the House entertainment budget and thus ultimately from the students' room charges. Increasing the entertainment budget to cover the booze the individual students would have bought for themselves before the ban is unfair to the teetotalling minority. Besides, alcohol is expensive; the masters could use their budget to reach many students more often if they were not burdened with a bar bill the size of the French war debt...
...Trade unions are pragmatic. They win benefits even for their retirees," Reuther said. "Through such small victories they win loyalty. The trade unions have learned it is a great disservice to set people marching for illusionary goals they could never reach...
...relief operation because many of the refugees being helped were considered members or supporters of the Khmer Rouge. But it now appears that relief agencies will be allowed to set up offices in Phnom-Penh to monitor the distribution of food, thus helping ensure that it will reach starving civilians and not the battling armies. For many Cambodians, aid will arrive too late. The country needs a minimum of 700 tons of food per day, and only a fraction of that is arriving...
Although the U.S. still has far to go to reach parity with Japan, the new mood was based on encouraging statistics. Says Mansfield: "In the first half of 1979, our exports to Japan were up 46% compared with a year ago. Our imports from Japan were up too, but only by 8.8%." Last year the U.S. ran an $11.6 billion deficit in its trade with Japan; in 1979 the figure is expected to drop to about $9 billion, a 25% decrease...