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Harvard coach Dave Hubbard has somewhat slimmer pickings, but his skiers are no slouches by any means. Five must be chosen for the carnival teams and there is strong competition for two of the spots...
This year the pickings were slimmer for King's organization, Citizens for Limited Taxation (CFLT). A ban on corporate contributions and the creation of a rival organization cut the group's take to around $40,000, though their staff of 500 volunteers freed much of that money for other uses. Another headache for CFLT was that under House Bill 5020, introduced by Representative Piro of Somerville, 85 per cent of the people are below the cutoff point. The bill died in the Ways and Means Committee, but its tables were used as the basis for argument on question...
...remaining two sketches are made of slimmer stuff, but the cast is so good that it gives away Simon's secret: how people guard themselves against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with a jest...
...Slimmer Waistlines. The trend has Government encouragement-indeed prodding. Nancy Harvey Steorts, special assistant for consumer affairs to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, advanced the idea a year ago in a speech to the National Association of Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people...
Gourmet Food. The Government has won interlocking-directorate cases on slimmer evidence. Several years ago, it won a ruling that R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., the New York-based department-store chain, and Safeway Stores, Inc., now the nation's biggest supermarket group, could not share a director because Macy's sold gourmet foods. If the Government can establish a precedent that ties between banks and nonbank companies are subject to the law, and that banks and insurance companies compete, it can be expected to launch more suits. It might contend that the same person cannot serve...