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...taxes, which helped vaporize the hoped-for surplus. The current fiscal year looks still worse. "If everything goes wrong," as one Administration official put it, the deficit could climb as high as $15 billion. Some Administration experts conclude that a $7 to $10 billion deficit may be necessary to stave off a serious recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon: The Beach and the Budget | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...participate in an "in" joke, but the self-consciousness they enforce and the sniggering communal sensibility they impose lay heavily on the play. The emotional changes which should animate the third act are lost; the tension which should carry us over the hump of the comedy-only tautness can stave off boredom in humor-is flaccid...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: At Agassiz You Can't Take It With You | 7/28/1970 | See Source »

...Republican and support the President, and you're convinced that he's getting out of Viet Nam?" he asks. His actions in the fight over the Cooper-Church amendment answer his question. Dole has been in the forefront of the battle to water down the amendment and stave off a Senate showdown until after the President's June 30 deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: Nixon's Champion | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...important one for Harvard, which must stave on challenges from the Cadets and Penn in defense of its Hep title a week from now at Yale...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Cindermen Down Unbeaten Army | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

Defenseman Bill Bennett had predicted Friday that Harvard would hold the Quakers to five goals or less, but it took a better effort than most anticipated to stave them off. "Penn was very definitely better than I expected." said McDowell...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Lacrosse Team Wins, 7-5, On Strong Defensive Play | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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