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...intensely interested in winning, but that's not the real thrust of Harvard athletics," says Fish at home in his office strewn with video camera equipment and books on biomechanics...
...most obvious loss of thrust has been suffered by the economic program. At a White House meeting last week, Chief of Staff James Baker observed that the program was proceeding satisfactorily because even Democrats in Congress are now committed to substantial cuts in spending and taxes, as the President wants. Reagan dryly responded, "If things are going so well, how come I'm not jumping up and down?" He had a point. While he was in the hospital, the program suffered two setbacks: first, three conservative Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee joined Democrats in rejecting a budget resolution...
...clearer: they are adamant that the Reagan Administration pursue a "two track" policy of building up defenses while making a good-faith attempt to negotiate with the Soviets. A number of West European officials have politely but firmly told visitors from Washington that they consider the initial anti-Soviet thrust of Reagan foreign policy excessive and obsessive. Galled by that attitude from across the Atlantic, some second-echelon hard-liners in the Administration have gone so far as to hope for a Soviet invasion of Poland. It would, they believe, galvanize both domestic and allied support for the policies they...
...billion, and mass-transit aid would be trimmed by $12 billion. Though Congress is expected to approve a large portion of the Reagan cuts, some lawmakers argue that the reductions are shortsighted. Says Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee: "The whole thrust of the Reagan program is to downgrade the infrastructure. What has been a serious worry will now become a disaster...
...shaped stack. Out of the top of the great main fuel tank seeped puffs of steamy vapors, supercold droplets of liquid oxygen. Suddenly, just after dawn on Sunday, the ship's three main engines roared to life. Throttling quickly to 90% of their full 1.1 million lbs. of thrust, the engines caused the spacecraft and fuel tanks to tilt ever so slightly. Seconds later, they snapped back to vertical, and two solid-fuel rockets-fiery space-age Roman candles never before used on a manned flight-ignited, adding their full fury, 5.3 million lbs. more of thrust...