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...smaller agencies or face derision from the cynical electorate. Either way, he contends the GOP will lose. "It's one thing to be out in the bushes taking pot shots, and another to be in government with your hand on the till, ah...tiller," Tsongas says with an abrupt snicker...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saving the World Without Easy Answers | 2/20/1981 | See Source »

SOME WOULD CALL even this an optimistic scenario; surely, they say, we will all be blown to pieces in some Armageddon choreographed from reinforced concrete bunkers in the Urals and the Rockies, and perhaps they are right. Others will snicker and say that life goes on; for a while it will, very much as normal. Sooner rather than later, though, the danger will become apparent, a danger so contrary it manifests itself in believable ways only when it becomes too powerful to be checked. The lights will not turn off all at once some morning, but the newspapers will hint...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

...snicker at the record, or at his subsequent career of uninterrupted mediocrity with the Baltimore Colts and San Diego Chargers; the guy could play. Yet Domres symbolized the plight of the Columbia football player, those beefy residents of Morningside Heights, who last won more than three games in 1963. They are expected to lose-they...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Crimson to Grapple With Lions in Grid Opener | 9/20/1980 | See Source »

...does look as if he's arrogant, remote, or at least inattentive. But I'm tired of being invited to snicker at that momentary grimace and to take it as symbolic of a style of government. And I'm sad to recognize The Crimson's easy lapse into a mode of journalism that is complacently impudent, irresponsible, unprofessional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One More Time | 4/19/1980 | See Source »

...call the Harvard-Cornell game a hemarrhoid more than anything else. Being subjected to Ithaca for just 30 seconds is even more painful than the snicker-provoking affliction that attacks from behind. Ithaca, along with Binhamton and Buffalo, defines the triangular wasteland of Western New York that could well be overrun by the Erie Waste Canal and never be missed...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Long Day's Journey Into Ithaca: Meeting the Big Red Machine | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

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