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...begin on the budget tonight. "If the capped budget goes through, we might as well go into the food services business," Lannon said last night. "I've already cut almost everything I've done in the last five years and I'm still $2 million shy of Gov. Kings' stupid cap." Lannon added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City May Have to Slash School Budget | 4/2/1980 | See Source »

...believing its puzzles could best be worked out by biochemists. "I spared myself years of frustration," he says. Most of his colleagues, aware of the difficulties of interferon studies, considered his decision totally rational. Said one distinguished virologist at the time: "Anybody who abandons interferon research cannot be entirely stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big IF in Cancer | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...denies using any forged papers. The Liverpool operation, he laments, "committed frauds and forged certificates in such a stupid way that they came to grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Vintage Villains | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...whatsoever to do with the Straus Cup. Instead, I was provoked by the other teams insistence on attempting to "rearrange my face" with their hockey sticks. Though I cannot speak for the oppositions motives, I know that mine certainly were unrelated to "intense intramural competition" or "emphasis on the stupid cup"; rather, my actions were purely intended to "save face". I find it poor journalism to rely on hearsay evidence, unreliable sources and opinion, instead of investigating the incident yourself to discover the true facts. Dave Miller

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saving Face | 3/18/1980 | See Source »

...shrugs off any glorification of his approach, or his mastery of the Woodstein technique. "Investigative reporting is a stupid term," he says definitively. "Decent reporting is by definition investigative." For Shawcross, Sideshow was an extension of his earlier days on the Times' insight team...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Cambodia, Wide Open | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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