Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terriers, who were only slightly faster than Harvard Saturday, exploited Harvard's slowness to clear their own zone and execute simple clearing plays. A bit of pressure resulted in errant passes from the defense and B.U. goals. Harvard's defense will have to look sharper for the NCAAs...
...lyrics require precise enunciation and too often jokes are missed simply because the words are smudged not only in their songs but throughout. Janice Cuddy (God) and Debbie Smigel (Jenny Novocane) are both excellent; Cuddy's "Power to Persuade" is belted out with high skill. Nancy Raffman brings a sharper edge to her role than most others in the cast and her kind of mania is just what an actor of actress needs to bring so this show...
...part of the problem. As the troubles of the unemployment insurance system show, widespread joblessness costs the nation ever larger amounts of tax money and leads to bigger federal deficits. All of which raises the question: Could a far more expansionary national economic policy be any worse? Indeed, even sharper tax cuts than the Administration wants would reduce the federal deficit-by putting people back to work...
...last month. Compared with the overall national unemployment rate, these figures seem low. But while total unemployment between December 1973 and December 1974 rose by 48%, from 4.4 million to 6.5 million, unemployment among managers and administrators jumped by 85%, from 125,000 to 231,000. That was a sharper increase than for any other white-collar occupational group...
...Simon and Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, have already let it be known that they favor a gasoline-tax hike. In a joint press conference, they also suggested that they might support a general tax cut, since the re cession is turning out to be sharper than expected. Even Ford's visitors from abroad, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, pressed him to take more resolute action in the deepening economic crisis (see THE WORLD...