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...McEvoy. Real experience there. Real hard to lose those guys. But we've got a bunch of good kids coming in as freshmen. Heck, we've got a great player in Scott Barringer, a kid from Belmont Hill, my alma matter. He should pick up some of the scoring slack...
...that a tighter job market will push up wages and launch a new inflationary spiral. In November 1979, the last time unemployment was as low as 5.9%, inflation was roaring ahead at a seemingly unstoppable 12% annual rate. The current consensus, however, is that the economy still has enough slack to keep that from happening. One reason: in addition to the 7.1 million people the Labor Department officially lists as "unemployed," an additional 1 million, classified as "discouraged," have given up looking for jobs but are still part of the country's available labor pool...
...Access to insurance coverage is synonymous with access to adequate health care in this country," says Glen Maxey, executive director of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas. Maxey, along with others, argues that it is unfair for the industry to expect public health-care insurance to pick up the slack...
...does more with his 24-hour day than most of us. He edits the conservative National Review, writes a syndicated column, lectures widely, composes spy novels and stars as a TV Torquemada on his inquisitorial talk show Firing Line. When he is not administering polysyllabic lashings to liberals, slack thinkers and casual grammarians, Buckley may be found afloat. His relish for blue water and white sails is persuasively advertised in Airborne (1976), Atlantic High (1982) and now Racing Through Paradise, books that, among other things, make work and play look like a distinction without a difference...
Although University officials outlawed senior bars this year, prohibiting the Class Committee from fulfilling its traditional role as organizer of the month of nightly parties, individual seniors have taken up the slack. About 30 rooming groups appointed themselves hosts and have composed and distributed schedules to all of their friends...