Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closed-door sessions around a huge octagonal table, beneath the gaze of portraits of past presidents. The participants-members of the Yale Corporation, Yale University's august board of directors-breathe not a word about their deliberations. There is even an executive secretary who vigilantly collects every scrap of paper after each meeting, carries them home and carefully burns them in his fireplace...
...revised version authorizes the President to scrap the 4% jobless target if necessary to keep inflation from rising rapidly-a signal to wary businessmen that the Administration is serious about holding prices down...
...critique of American Jewish intellectual reaction only highlights the chief problem that Patterson perceives in the continuing fashionability of ethnic loyalty--that ethnic subcultures are now acting as political interest groups in the increasingly competitive scrap for America's, and the world's, shrinking social and physical resources. Drawing on his classification of ethnicity prototypes, Patterson notes that this politically revolutionary trend is inherent in the nature of what he labels "the revivalist ethnic group." Ruthlessly pursuing his argument, he summarizes the phenomenon by arguing that...
...prime reason for the delay is that the Administration wants to wait until the bitter congressional fight over the President's energy program is resolved, and thus avoid getting the tax-revision proposals entangled in that scrap. Also, the White House has lately become increasingly concerned about possible sluggishness in the economy next year, and about the stiffening resistance of businessmen and some Congressmen to the tax-reform plan, even before it has officially been announced. In order both to pep up the economy and, they hope, disarm critics, Administration planners are subtly shifting the emphasis...
Early in the second half the Crimson clicked for its temporary lead. A scrap in front of the Dartmouth cage eventually rolled the ball over to star forward Sarah Mlezcko. The talented sophomore then rapped a shot which deflected off a Dartmouth defender and into the net for a 1-0 Harvard lead...