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This time Rocky, who whipped Creed to take the title in II, announces his retirement, feeling he can no longer give the sport his best shot. From the crowd on the museum steps jumps the Mohawk-coiffed, feather-bedecked Clubber Lang (played by Newcomer Mr. T, a.k.a. Lawrence Tero). The top contender harangues the champ with an intensity from somewhere beyond Muhammad Ali, demanding a title shot. Mickey, who has coached Rocky's career from the beginning, tells the fighter the awful truth: his title defenses have been against opponents he could easily whip. Lang, he suggests, would...
...excited and organize a parade, Director I think we've got to talk a little more about long-term strategy. Applying negative social pressure to gays and other minority groups of our desire is not going to be easy at first. Until we're able to whip up a consensus against them, there will be some anger and some protests You need to look at the advice of sociologist Fred Hirsch, who seems clearly to foresee the implications of your ideas, but who provides a warning...
...players on the Harvard men's tennis learn had Georgia on their minds yesterday, but they thought about the Palmer Dixon Courts just enough to whip Dartmouth 8-1 in their final match before the national championships next week...
...Republicans in the Senate shape a budget proposal before the House takes action. O'Neill also threatened to call a vote on Reagan's original budget, claiming, "The President complained to us yesterday that his budget had not been taken up." Washington Congressman Thomas Foley, the Democratic whip, had no doubt how that vote would go. "If we withdrew every Democrat from the chamber and permitted only Republicans to vote," he predicted, "the President's budget would be resoundingly defeated...
...federal deficit spending, without raising taxes. Richard Nixon's clumsy efforts to stop inflation by a 90-day wage and price freeze, and later by various "phases" of economic restraint and stimulus, merely made the problem worse. Gerald Ford's jawboning efforts, epitomized by WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons, gave the impression that Washington had few ideas on how to cope with price increases. Under Jimmy Carter, inflation reached towering new heights. From an annual rate of slightly less than 5% in 1976 just before Carter took office, consumer prices rose by nearly...