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Much depends on the course of the economy. Congress is expected to stall on the budget for the next three months or so, watching to see what happens to production and employment. If, as Republic can true believers hope, a powerful recovery begins by spring, promising to create many new jobs and raise incomes sharply enough to hike Government revenues and shrink those menacing deficits, much of the present opposition to Reagan's fiscal policy would disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Time to Retreat: Reagan on more arms and no big tax hikes | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

Midway through the stanza, all offensive activity ceased for a full four minutes, as both squads played intensely physical defense. The Crimson maintained its advantage, but when St. Anselm's finally rediscovered its attack. Harvard continued to employ a stall offense, putting the ball up only under pressure...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: St. Anselm's Dumps Women Hoopsters | 2/10/1982 | See Source »

...Bengals got the ball back moments later as the 49er offense began to stall, and a 41-yard bomb from Anderson to Collinsworth put Cincinnati in business on the 14. But Pete Johnson, after picking up a first down at the three, failed to get the ball into the end zone on first and second downs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 49er Victory Climaxes Dream Season | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...brown. Soap should be white... When a person takes a shower and looks down, he doesn't want to see a lot of colors running off him." Did you ever worry about that? Probably not. That joke might have been saved on television, with Rooney standing in a shower stall with a funny bathing cap or something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...But Not Few Enough | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...stack away, in stall C-6, sits living proof of the Scholar's words. "Yeah, I keep coming back to this desk," says John Driscoll '82-3. "It's got the least amount of inane graffiti. There's wonderful choice of messages over there"--he gestures to Kyriazis's stall--"and over here is a long discussion of Radcliffe women." But why this particular row of desks--Harvard has more than 100 libraries? Driscoll looks up from the pile of cards and papers and books in front of him--an Ec 1550 term paper-to-be. "Because it's subterranean...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Desk of One's Own | 1/6/1982 | See Source »

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