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...Weinberger in Saudi Arabia and Oman were simultaneously pursuing the same objective: laying the diplomatic groundwork to secure a chain of facilities that the American Rapid Deployment Force might some day use to hopscotch from the U.S. to the Middle East on its way to counter a Soviet thrust...
...been faulty. Said De Vries: "Reaganomics was intended to provide incentives and productivity gains. But the policy is increasingly thought of in terms of high interest rates and unemployment. That's not right. That's not what Reaganomics was meant to be." It is not the general thrust of the President's program that the economists question, but rather his inflexible stance against any changes in spending priorities or new taxes of any description. With some compromises and repairs, Reaganomics could still be a powerful engine of economic growth in the years ahead. -By Charles Alexander
Finding themselves down by 13, the hoopsters managed to keep Brown from taking complete control by evenly distributing the scoring. Harvard left for the locker room at halftime trailing 42-33. Junior Francea Hall provided Harvard's main offensive thrust contributing eight first-half points...
...when Woodbury refused to leave, an angry classmate advanced and struck him in the face, and the entire class crowded around, picked him up, and "immediately thrust him headlong over the stairs." The president refused to continue the gathering, and later that evening called four students before the government, charged them with throwing Woodbury out of the chapel, and expelled them...
...first. It is too cute, but it is not offensive. Whatever sins have been committed on the outside have been made up for on the inside, however, where Scenic Designer Richard Hay has devised what seems to be an ideal theatrical space: 581 comfortable seats for the audience, a thrust stage for the actors, and ample room for producers and directors to change sets and scenery...