Word: virtual
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...chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has pledged to keep the 1970 Clean Air Act as is, except for minor revisions. When the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment opened hearings last month, Chairman Henry Waxman of California called the bill "an open invitation for a virtual halt in air-pollution control." At week's end, he announced that he would introduce his own bill to simplify and strengthen the act. After nearly a year of debate, though, nobody knows when, or how, the 1970 model will be restyled. The only certainty is that...
Because the Ivies, unlike the Easterns, have no time requirements, they throw together hundreds of swimmers of widely varying abilities. The result is heat after heat in a marathon dragging over three days. In addition, as Yale Coach Frank Keefe sayd, the meet has degenerated into a virtual four-way battle because the rest of the Ivy League has not kept pace with the recruiting efforts of Princeton, Brown, Harvard, and Yale. But now for the best swimmers and the best teams, the Easterns will supplant the Ivies as the season's championship meet...
...just endured six weeks of virtual immobilization at the hands of captors with a reputation for cold-blooded murder, it was a remarkable performance. Dozier forthrightly admitted he had been too busy to heed repeated warnings about potential terrorist attacks before his abduction. From the moment he was taken to the terrorists' Padua apartment on Dec. 17, Dozier was chained by his left ankle and right wrist to a raised wooden platform covered by a small camping tent. He was never allowed to get up or move around the apartment outside the tent. He washed himself with a pail...
...moved the Crimson into a virtual the with Cornell (7-7-1) for second place in the Ivy Division of the ECAC, a game behind pace-setting Yale (8-6-1), which didn't play last night. The Ivy Division winner is guaranteed a playoff spot and home ice in the first round of the ECAC tourney. Harvard travels to New Haven in play the Elis the next Saturday, and hosts Cornell at Bright Center on February...
...made statements threatening us. We are facing this arrogance of power, this unlimited American help to Israel. And, I am sorry to say, I have to remember that after this big insult from [Israeli Prime Minister Menachem] Begin to President Reagan [over U.S. objections to Israel's virtual annexation of the Golan Heights last December], it was Reagan who retreated...