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...spat was a discouraging omen for a year on Capitol Hill that promises to be the fiscal equivalent of Apocalypse Now. Beginning this week, as the President delivers his delayed annual State of the Union address to Congress and submits his budget proposal for fiscal year 1987, the Government must face up to the full force of Gramm-Rudman, the automatic deficit-reduction measure enacted last year to balance the budget by 1991. Unless Congress and the White ^ House can fashion a budget that reduces the federal deficit (now estimated at more than $220 billion for fiscal 1986, which began...
When these two teams first faced off back in November, the site was cozy Ingalls rink, superheated to help the ponderous but powerful Eli forwards turn the corners into a matched set of hydraulic presses that spat out flattened Crimson players all evening...
This issue is the last to be published under the aegis of the current executives, who, soon to be spat out of the womb of 14 Plympton St., must now find another way to avoid work and play gadflies to the University community...
...weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...
...rain stopped, the sun showed, a pistol spat and Lake Michigan fairly boiled with sleek, flashing bodies, the women in green caps, the men in orange. Out of the water and onto the bikes, they hurled themselves through encouraging throngs: "Lookin' good! Keep it up!" One biker wore a helmet that looked like a silver tear cut in half, something Mercury himself might have favored. Off the bikes, pulling on running shoes, they shattered records in tying laces. Then they tore off on foot, the sound of their hearts pounding in their ears. Scott Molina was first to finish...