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Whether that tide of public sympathy and admiration will win additional votes for Reagan's spending and tax cuts, especially in the Democratic-controlled House where the real battle will be fought, is in some dispute. Most of Reagan's senior advisers agree with Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman, who says, "I don't think it will have any significant effect on the Hill." On the other hand, some Democrats are afraid they will be hampered in making an aggressive case against those cuts that they contend hurt the poor. Says one liberal...
...first five minutes of the game and jumped out to an 8-2 lead. But the calm Hoosier squad then ran off a string of six unanswered points and tied the game up at 8-8 with about ten minutes to go in the first half. The tide switched again, however, as Wood made an inside power move and laid it up-and-in to claim his 2000th collegiate point, and the Tar Hells who socred eight points to Indiana's none in the next two minutes to go up 16-8. Knight said after the game that this...
...past two years, the U.S. Army and the West German government have cooperated in a campaign against a tide of hard-drug use that has threatened to engulf both German youth and U.S. military personnel. In 1980 West German police seized a record 263 kilograms of heroin in raids across the country. Last year a sweep of one 15,000-strong U.S. military installation near Frankfurt resulted in the capture of $4 million worth of mostly marijuana and hashish and arrest of 146 U.S. soldiers. Another operation in northwest Germany netted 44 drug offenders, 18 of them U.S. soldiers. Military...
...battle gear I followed Stalin to Mayakovsky Station and stood by his side to hear his greatest speech, words that turned the Fascist tide even as they shelled the city overhead ...' His hand shot out to restrain Arkady from going. 'I gave you a name like that, and you come here, a petty detective, to ask about a coward who spent his war hiding in packing cases? Some common snoop, is that all you are?' Arkady rose, more exhausted than he could have imagined, and stumbled on the way to the library door...
...slowed down and let the tide turn against us," Martin said. "They served aggressively, and our bumping was terrible...