Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Christmas Gift. In some wealthy suburbs, where the need for services and facilities is slight, revenue-sharing cash will build swimming pools and tennis courts. Edina, Minn., will use part of its $160,000 to carve out bicycle paths. Less affluent North Little Rock, Ark., is badly in need of improved drainage and sewerage facilities, but its mayor, William Laman, is determined to invest part of the city's $500,000 in Christmas decorations. In Los Angeles, which gets a $35 million share, Mayor Sam Yorty wants to use some of the money to build a huge maintenance center...
...toughest competition for the Crimson will come from Tufts, Brown and MIT. However all teams use the host's boats in sailing competitions, and Harvard will have a slight advantage in manning...
...Houses except Kirkland and the three Radcliffe Houses showed at least a slight increase in the number of students eating weekend lunches. The Dunster Mather dining hall kitchen has experienced the most severe increase and now serves about 90 more lunches on weekends than it serves on week days...
...flight, Kissinger was given a handwritten letter from Nixon. On two pages of pale green stationery, Nixon had penned some last-minute thoughts for his plenipotentiary for peace. "Do what is right for an honorable peace, without regard to the election," he wrote. A settlement might be "a slight plus for the election," Nixon mused, but more likely it would prove to be "basically a mixed bag for a variety of reasons...
...subway and bus stops, Koch stresses his attempts to wrest mass-transportation money from road-subsidy funds, and emphasizes his recent proposal to admit Soviet Jews and Asian Ugandans to the U.S. without regard to immigration quotas. Given Koch's popularity in the Silk Stocking District, there seems slight chance that the voters will pick Pickens...