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...voteless pay raise was part of a carrot-and-stick deal carefully engineered by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. With justification-the Peterson Commission cited the need for such raises early this year-he figured that members of Congress deserved their first significant salary increase since 1969 to try to catch up with inflation. But he was convinced the raise would have been voted down if each legislator had been forced to take a public stand on it. So O'Neill pledged to link the pay raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code...
...Objects Lab, a Greek vessel lies on its side on a sponge cushion. Dipping a Q-tip in a solution an assistant removes old paint used to cover earlier retouching, exposing the crack-mending in the process. The slow and tricky work is necessitated solely by changed aesthetic tastes. Formerly, conservators could use new paint to "restore" a lost section of a picture without invoking the wrath of purists. Now, Beale said, the emphasis on presenting just the original, even when that causes gaps in a pattern...
Trudeau said as much when he went before a joint session of Congress and, doubling his fist, declared, "Canada's unity will not be fractured!" Ironically, he may be the last foreign leader to make such an appearance for some time. House Speaker Tip O'Neill considers such intrusions in the congressional routine "a waste of time," and even Trudeau's eloquence did not change his mind...
...third period, however, was different. Just 0:20 into the frame, Hugo made it 3-0 on a brilliant tip-in on a Dave Dampisano shot. But it took only :08 for Harvard's Bob Kelley to assist on a Paul Mangano goal which sliced the lead back to two goals...
After a series of quick steals by the Crimson, Tufts began missing passes and tip-ins, and it was all over but for the buzzer...