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...hoped to confront the issue head-on during his televised speech. Instead, he merely recommended again changes that Health and Hu man Services Secretary Richard Schweiker and OMB Director David Stockman had formulated and that the Senate had rejected last May, and proposed a few palliatives to shore up the system for the time being. Reagan also asked that any major changes in Social Security be studied by a 15-member bipartisan task force - five members each from the Senate and House, plus five presidential appointees. The task force would not be expected to report any findings until January...
...peremptory challenges (the number for each side generally ranges from four to ten, though the total for the defense goes higher in criminal cases in some states). The lawyer need not give any reason, or even have any. "It's very upsetting to get bounced," says John Shore, a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. "To be denied because you're too smart, or because you're the wrong race or socioeconomic group-that's nonsense...
...whiny after a bit. Tsongas's justification is that disaster looms--the metaphor he uses throughout the book is a canoeist approaching a waterfall, who must recognize the danger in time and act sensibly by plunging into the chilly water. Our junior senator is the man standing on the shore yelling, "Turn back." It's the fear of fast water; the fear that should the center not hold mere anarchy would be loosed upon the world, and that mere anarchy would be a bitch. It is an appeal to survival instincts, and though that may be sane...
...because every squad--with the possible exception of Brown--has a legitimate shot at the crown in the very short (seven games) Ivy season. Princeton gets the early honors mostly on the strength of a possibly phenomenal recruiting year, with Tiger coach Bill Muse counting on the freshmen to shore up the offense and improve last year's 8-4-3 mark...
...looks like a blotchy suburban sprawl, etched in shades of caramel and cream, blue and black. Borgert peers down trying to gauge the ice's age, its strength and its intentions. "That blue ice," he chuckles, "that's harder than a whore's heart, boy." The shore ice floats past Barrow faster than a man can trot, and the pack can press ridges and hummocks 70 ft. high. Says he: "If you want to see something that scares the hell out of you, it's mobile ice moving at four or five knots and coming...