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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Former Presidents Act of 1958, seeking to rectify such instances of national neglect, provided a $25,000 annual pension and $50,000 a year for office and taff, sums that have steadily escalated. Now each ex-President is entitled to a lifetime annual salary equal to that of a Cabinet Secretary (currently $80,100). Widows get $20,000 a year. The retiree also gets $150,000 for a staff during the first 30 months and $96,000 a year thereafter, unlimited nonpolitical postage and a furnished office. The expenses are flexible. "The law says the office must be 'suitably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying for National Pyramids | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

Sands defeated Navy's Bayly Taff, 6-0, 6-2. Grossman also took his match, sinking John Dace in two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Of six singles matches played, only sophomore Dave Beckman went to three sets, finally displaying Darryl Mountford...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Netmen Win Both Doubles and Singles, Submerge Midshipmen Forces, 9-0 | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

...Everyone played strong matches." Fish remarked "Beckman got down 4-1 in the third set, which may be he shouldn't have done, but he was able to come back." Beckman and Sands later downed Mountford and Taff again in doubles play...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Netmen Win Both Doubles and Singles, Submerge Midshipmen Forces, 9-0 | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

Breaking out of his traditionally slow start. Warren Grossman, the number five player, confronted the well-respected freshman, Bailey Taff. The first set saw plebe Taff taking an early 6-4 lead. However, a determined Grossman:--relying on his natural quickness to get behind the superb shooting of his opponent--forced Taff into two consecutive tie-breaking sets, both of which Grossman...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Crimson Netmen Launch Into Season With 8-1 Victory Over Midshipmen | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

...division singles, Navy's Bailey Taff had to sail through a Crimson sea to pull out a championship. He defeated Bob Horne, 6-2, 6-4, in the semi-finals, and then came from way behind to nip Mike Terner in the finals, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6. Terner fought back from a 4-1 deficit in the final tiebreaker, only to lose the final point on a clutch overhead smash by the Midshipman...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Crimson Netmen Trail Only Princeton, Finish 2nd in Eastern Championships | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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