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Dake will be in the starting lineup along with Bullet Mike O'Rourke, Hurry Hurt. J. Anthony Hill III. Doug "Gnaw and Gnash" Schoen, player-coach R. Decherd. Tinker Lindsay and Susan Kinsley times 1.5 to achieve a nearperfect 2.5589 to 1 ratio...
...very short run, an average level of unemployment a little higher under a Republican Administration. Over the longer pull, I would argue that unemployment would be lower with the Republicans. They are likely to avoid a stop-go policy of stimulus and restraint-that is, they would tinker less with the economy...
Much sideline speculation centered around the new, paddle-powered waterbed rafts. These innovative crafts are just beginning to appear on the raft-race circuits, but, from all indications, it seems unlikely that they will ever catch on. Both the Water Bedlam (skippered by Tinker Lindsay, Tad Paul, and Lisa Noll of Adams) and the Delta Queen (manned by Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their...
...Democrats only wanted to make their point and then leave Nixon stuck in 1972 with an Agriculture Secretary unpopular with a farm constituency that could be crucial to the election. But the real rub with the farmers is low corn prices; the Agriculture Secretary has wide latitude to tinker with support prices, and the Republican plan is simply to have Butz raise the floor under corn. The day after he was confirmed, Butz announced that the Government would start buying corn this month in an effort to bring prices...
Teachers and administrators are often hesitant about all-year plans because they require rearranging the curriculum into smaller units. A drawback from the viewpoint of parents is the difficulty in taking long family vacations. But in most states approval by the legislature is needed to allow school boards to tinker with the schedule. Many legislators are reluctant. One bill was defeated in New York last spring when legislators from summer-resort areas objected that revisions would hurt their constituents' business...