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That is precisely what the Patriots and their supporters will have to do to get the bill passed, and although it could conceivably get past the Legislature, it is likely that court action on Harvard's part would stall the takeover procedures long past the time when the Patriots would have to produce the stadium for Commissioner Pete Rozelle's approval...
...stranger and a horse in a small trailer arrive at the race track and gets stable permission for a racing season. For several races the horse shows no sign of life and the odds on the animal keep rising. One morning the stranger goes into the horse's stall to pet him, feed him some carrots, and give him "a little help." That afternoon the horse should go off at odds of seventy to one, but at post time the odds are only fifty to one. No one notices. The horse wins by five lengths, and the trainer...
...aristocratic uses of technology and a demand for democratic uses. We have got to know what we are doing to ourselves. Life can be ?and is being?eroded." To prevent that erosion, he unmercifully nags consumer-minded U.S. Senators, pushing them to pass new bills. When their committees stall, he phones them by day, by night, and often on Sundays. "This is Ralph," he announces, and nobody has to ask, "Ralph whoT...
...which has killed thousands of American boys? It can't be done. All the anti-war talk of the last few years seems either naive or dishonest now. We want to stop the war not because it is too expensive, but because it is a bloody holding action to stall a victory by the legitimate though repressive government of the people. Tell that to a woman whose son was mangled by punji sticks or a terrorist attack...
...fare feud stems from the rising threat of cut-rate charter flights, which last year carried 14% of the passengers who flew the Atlantic. The only way for the scheduled lines to stall the charters is to reduce their own rates. A major impediment is that many of the state-run European carriers, which dominate the International Air Transport Association, have traditionally argued for higher fares. The U.S. lines have long pressed for reduced rates, figuring that lower fares would attract more customers and ultimately increase profits. But the U.S. lines are a minority within the IATA cartel. Another complicating...