Word: thing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Brown football game is usually quite an emotional one-for the Bruins. Beating Harvard is considered an incredibly desirable thing in Providence, but since Brown has failed to do so since 1959, an encounter with the Bruins has done little to incite the Crimson's enthusiasm in recent years...
OKUN: Federal pay is a real scary area now, given the attitude in Congress and the pressures of the unions. Let us take another simple thing like fair trade. If we could repeal the fair-trade laws that allow some manufacturers to fix retail prices, that action alone could reduce the consumer price index by an estimated three-tenths of 1%. Then there are oil imports and the whole range of policies regarding agriculture, which have important price implications...
ECKSTEIN: We are really sitting on a time bomb. The private economy would like to get going, and we had better look out that we don't turn it loose too fully or too quickly. If things go badly, and the Administration has to think about antirecession programs, the sensible thing would be to accelerate carefully thought-out proposals-such as the family-assistance program and revenue sharing-rather than rushing into a collection of usually unsuccessful, temporary antirecession measures, such as public works...
...same sorority. Kathy told me about her school's SDS chapter, which is trying to kick fraternities, sororities, and football off campus. She couldn't understand why SDS wouldn't let other people do what they want. I'll take a cheerleader over a radical any day: for one thing. "Hold that line!" is always much better synchronized than...
Then there was last year's perfect 10-00 mark. "A perfect record is a once-in-a-lifetime thing." Getch mused. The team had a pouter beer mug inscribed 10-0-0" before their final game with Yale, and presented it to Getch after they...