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...Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), the long-time chairman of that committee, decided not to retire, leaving Kennedy in the lurch with a bill he will have to see through to the bitter end. Kennedy has apparently pushed the bill through the Senate, but the going will be tougher in the House, and it may well not reach the House floor during the current session...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Son of S.1 | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

...have to be worth well over $1. Says Feldstein: "We've got to get the effective cost of hiring those people down to $1 or $1.25 an hour." He thinks a voucher system, or some similar device, is necessary in order to make politically acceptable the tighter money and tougher fiscal policies that can reduce inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Search for Stagflation Remedies | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Racquetwomen Entomb Middlebury, 5-2 | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

Against the Tigers on Sunday, however, Moore will have much tougher competition as she faces freshman Kris Kinney, who beat Moore 3-1 last year while she played for Andover. (I thought that meant she was supposed to come here...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Racquetwomen Entomb Middlebury, 5-2 | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...drivers who are convinced that a donation to "The Cause" will buy them an ounce or two of secondhand glory. It's not quite like selling indulgences, as the priests were fond of doing in the good old days, but it's close enough. And that makes it tougher for O'Neill to back out of the deal when he realizes where all that money is going...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Broken Dreams and Kneecaps | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

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