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With just eight seconds lift, sophomore Bob Ferry sank both ends of a one-and-one to give Harvard a three-point lead and a stranglehold on the game. Green's last-second dunk brought UMass to within one, but the concession basket came too late, and the Crimson celebrated its first road victory of the season...
...affirmatively. Taking out a pen and drawing some lines on a napkin, Laffer explained that federal revenues would actually increase with a large slash in taxes. With more incentive for people to work harder, changing expectations would being massive increases in productive investment, investment currently chased away by the stranglehold excessive taxation and regulation have on the economy...
...holds the possibility of triggering Armageddon, not only by its physical presence, but also through the psychology it creates. Advanced weaponry is designed for war between the superpowers, and such war ought to be unsinkable. Or it is designed for wars like Vietnam--wars designed to extend our economic stranglehold on the world--nd hence immoral. Think about a proper war for us to fight; it not an easy task...
...unions?most of them quite small, but a few, including the postal workers, strong and increasingly restive?were warily watching the Administration's attitude toward Government strikers. Said one Reagan aide, drawing a rather far-fetched analogy: "If you cave in to a group like this, that has a stranglehold on public safety, what do you do, for example, when the Army wants to strike? It's the same thing." The President also could not permit a strike to shut down the air industry at a time when his entire economic recovery program is newly enacted and is about...
...leading leftists angered moderates by advocating unilateral removal of nuclear defense weapons from Britain. The climactic blow came at a special conference in Wembley last month, at which Labor M.P.s voted for a rules change that will give the bloc-voting unions and the left-leaning local committees a stranglehold over selection of the party leader. At that, Williams and three other former Cabinet ministers established a breakaway "Council for Social Democracy," the first step toward a new party...