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Construction of MATEP eventually had to halt, with only the contested engines needing installation. But the defeats and delays meant more than unanticipated embarrassment for Harvard; the successful stall tactics of the residents of Brookline. Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain also made the plant's final pricetag balloon by some $1.5 million per month. It now stands at $230 million, several times original projections...
That beautiful machine stalled right after I pulled out of the driveway. Flustered, I started it up and drove on slowly, hoping it wouldn't stall again. Suddenly, across my path I saw a car making a left turn and remembered in a flash that while there are lines of traffic in New England stopped at red lights, the Texans are more efficient, using four-way stop signs, one of which I hadn't noticed because I was worrying about the motor stalling My right foot braked; there was a crunch of metal against metal and a thud when...
...this was communicated to our plane. I did, however, receive an urgent cable from Scowcroft transmitting the draft of a letter that Nixon intended to send to Brezhnev. Its essence was that Nixon was granting me "full authority." I was horrified. I would be deprived of any capacity to stall. Full authority made it impossible for me to refer any tentative agreement to the President for his approval?if only to buy time. I flashed a message to Scowcroft uncharacteristically objecting to the grant: "I must be in a position to insist to the Russians that I must pass proposals...
...Growth in the gross national product is expected to accelerate gradually from 1.8% this year to 3.9% in 1983, a pace that would be only about half as strong as after other postwar recessions. Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to President Kennedy, warned that the economy may stall again within a year or two. Said he: "Under present policies, I don't think we can have a very strong rebound or a long...
...jetliner took off. Seventeen seconds later, already alerted to the danger of a stall by the rattle of the control stick, Wheaton tried to will Flight 90 aloft. "Forward, forward. Come on, forward. Forward! Just barely climb." Five seconds later Pettit knew it was over. "Larry," he said, "we're going down, Larry...