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Sharp Salvos. The President did not confine his remarks to praise for his own prescription for health care reform. He fired several sharp salvos at the liberal Democrats' plan for a national health insurance system, though he did not refer specifically to the Kennedy-Griffiths plan. Existing federal health programs, he said, now cost the average American family 405 tax dollars a year; the Administration proposal would push that cost to $466. The Kennedy-Griffiths plan, he argued, would cost $77 billion, nearly 25% of the total federal budget, and would hit the average family...
...Hurts, doesn't it? It is unfair for those meanies to categorize you and hold all responsible for the sins of a few. Let's do index and insist that medium1, medium2, medium3 hereafter refer to us as the South1, the South2 and the South3. MRS. J.L. HUNT Brunswick...
Almost everyone in the Radcliffe Administration says Bunting (whom they all refer to as "Polly") is a woman of vigor, creativity, intelligence and vision. She lists her major accomplishments as the Radcliffe Institute (a place of more individualized education for older women) and the remodelling of the Radcliffe Quad. (complete with Hilles, Currier and the House system). She is also Radcliffe's last president as the job now stands, since the "non-merger" proposal she worked out with Harvard has just been approved by both institutions' governing boards. During the next academic year, she will serve as Dean and President...
Reunion etiquette is actually fairly simple. Just avoid unpleasant subjects and refer to your fellow alumnus as Classmate. At first, it carries an odd note of artificial formality. But then, everyone else does the same thing. Women talk to their sisters, and blacks to fellow brothers, and I even had a professor this semester who took to calling us all citizen to set things on a more equitable basis. Besides, if you're the type that just can't remember first names, it makes it all a helluva lot easier...
...heard people say with great conviction, "I really wait to see you," or Johnny, or whoever it may be. I don't know who this Johnny is they refer to. [Laughter...