Word: saws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books in Littauer weren't ideal for the K-School, anyway. But, of course, the K-School couldn't just leave its books as a windfall for the Ec and Gov Departments; the fabled "every tub on its own bottom" dictum that segregates budgets across the University saw to that. Thus, the $250,000, which got folded into the Faculty budget this year under the nebulous "all other expenses" category...
Neither Harvard's first half goalie Wendy Carle or second half goalie Barb Mahon saw much action on their way to sharing their second shutout in as many games...
Amid the rhetoric and confusion, one of the coolest voices in Congress was that of Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd. When he saw President Carter at the start of the crisis, Byrd counseled calm and restraint. Last week he predicted, somewhat optimistically that the whole matter would be resolved within a few days. "There never should have been a crisis atmosphere to start with." Byrd declared. "I've been here during a few crises, including the missile crisis in 1962. I saw nothing in this one to justify panic or a hasty judgment on SALT...
...waves. Doubtless, too, as one colleague observes, "greed is an element in it." But in 1975, the plane in which Pavarotti was returning from the U.S. crashed during its landing at the Milan airport and broke in two. Pavarotti and the rest of the passengers were, as he saw it, miraculously spared. Whether as a result of the crash or not, Pavarotti seems to have made some kind of peace with mortality...
...restaurants have not tried to match the marketing razzle-dazzle of such newer competitors as McDonald's and Burger King. Also, their prices are as robust (a "Tendersweet Clam Plate" goes for $4.75) as their food is plain. As one old saw puts it, "Howard Johnson's ice cream comes in 28 flavors and its food in one." In motor lodges the company has fallen behind the quality standards of such major rivals as Holiday Inns and Marriott. Though the company has had record sales and profits for four years running -1978's earnings were $33.6 million...