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Harry's mother married his father's brother, and things seemed to be getting better again. One day Harry's legs began to tighten up and then they began to draw up, until the backs of his heels touched his buttocks. No one seemed to be able to find out why--including the old faith healer who came by to say a verse from Ezekiel and "I cain't say as I've ever seed laigs jest like them. But them is the Lord's laigs and he's seed them laigs and He's laid His hand on them...
...only be reduced by changing the law. Included are such huge programs as Social Security, which will cost $103 billion in fiscal 1979: Medicare, which will spend $29 billion; and Medicaid, with outlays of $12 billion. But now OMB is preparing a set of proposals for Congress that would tighten requirements for entering these programs. Such changes, OMB estimates, would save as much as $1 billion in fiscal 1980. HEW, which has learned that it must absorb one-third of the overall budget cut, cannot possibly accomplish that without changes in basic programs...
...have ended in victory. She tried and failed to persuade her boss, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, to make air bags mandatory in all new cars beginning in 1981 but had to settle for a 1982 to 1984 deadline. Claybrook later lost out even more embarrassingly in her attempt to tighten braking standards for tractor-trailers. She was testifying before a congressional committee on her opinion even as Adams was disagreeing with her at a press conference...
With 11:20 left, and Harvard stubbornly poking away in an effort to tighten the score, the chippiness that throughout the contest threatened to boil into something more serious finally did. Some late whacks at Harrison after a goalmouth scramble prompted Jack Colucci and other Engineers to charge into the acrimonious mass of players to the side...
Otto Eckstein of Data Resources, Inc.: "In the end all the President could do was follow the Republican recipe, to tighten up the economy. It has never worked without a recession...