Word: washing
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This minor truism was handed the Democrats as well. Twenty-six new seats in the House is fine, but not as heartening as 40 or 50 would have been, and a wash in the Senate is plain discouraging. Despite Tip O'Neill's pro forma yawp that the G.O.P. loss was "disastrous," it wasn't. The Democrats (and moderate Republicans) have simply been given more rope with which to hold the President in check, not to hang themselves or the nation. Profligate Government spending looks no more attractive today than it did two years...
...percent of mediations result in a written agreement between the child and the filer of the petition. This agreement includes specific concessions by both parties--a parent might promise to let his child stay out until 11:00 every night and the child would in turn promise to wash the dishes after breakfast. Over a three-month period, 60 percent of these agreements hold. Contact with the court is maintained, and probation officers continue to check up on the case, but if an agreement holds the CHINS petition is automatically dismissed...
...Siberia, USSR. Troll women in scarves and boots refill water tanks on train. Read every page of Time (People first): Wash hair in second-class sinkroom with Eddy (black suds). Stand at window and sing first verses of camp songs...
...Riley (D) No Race S.D. William J. Janklow (R) No Race TENN. Lamar Alexander (R) Jim Sasser (D) TEX. Mark White (D) Lloyd Bentsen (D) UTAH No Race Orrin G. Hatch (R) VT. Richard A. Snelling (R) Robert T. Stafford (R) VA. No Race Paul S. Trible Jr. (R) WASH. No Race Henry M. Jackson (D) W. VA. No Race Robert C. Byrd (D) WIS. Anthony S. Earl (D) William Proxmire (D) WYO. Ed Herschler (D) Malcom Wallop (R) Projections are from the Associated Press and ABC News as of 2:30 a.m. *--Too close to call
Born in Renton, Wash., in 1911, the son of a Bavarian immigrant whose various jobs included managing apartment buildings, Stigler graduated from the University of Washington in 1931. Seeing little if any chance to land a paying job in the depths of the Great Depression, he decided to try his hand at graduate school. The fateful decision took Stigler first to Northwestern University in Chicago for a master's degree, and thereafter to the University of Chicago for a Ph.D. His first teaching post was an assistant professorship at Iowa State University. In 1941 Stigler published his first work...