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...hard-core punks. It raised a howl among some teacher and civic groups as "an act of desperation" and "an abject surrender to pressure," and there was talk that the policy might be challenged in the courts. Since the city is desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets" to do even more damage. But the board had laid down a dramatic challenge. Somehow, it said in effect, the city and state must provide what is needed...
...When I get into the gate, it's instinct mainly. I hold both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate...
...Congress Monday may be tipped into the red. In that event, and if income is down, he said, "then it would seem to me it would be a bad time to raise taxes, because you want that economy to ... have a little needle; a needle, rather than a check rein...
...when he fractured his spine in a fall. Management and the presidency of the Gannett group has since gone into the hands of able, Gannett-groomed Paul Miller, 51, onetime Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press, who believes as firmly as F.E.G. in giving his editors free rein...
...more effective and less presumptuous body. The idea of student government at Harvard is an anomaly; most student organizations are mature and responsible, capable of handling their own affairs, more capable, usually, than the Student Council is of handling its own. The Administration realizes this, and keeps a rein on the Council when it tries to "really do something for the student body" by exerting control over another student organization, e.g., the Young Republican Club. The few instances of organizational misbehavior could be handled by the Administration quite capably and fairly without the Student Council...