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...compass has been erratic. He has actually introduced four anti-inflation plans. None have had much impact, partly because he has been reluctant to propose the kind of slashing required to get the federal budget into balance-provided he could have pushed such cuts through Congress. Last whiter the Administration submitted its normal budget, but then, when stunned by fresh inflation figures and an anticipated deficit of $16 billion, rushed out another in six weeks...
Last season's top two-year-old, Rockhill Native, entered the 1980 season as the whiter book favorite, but when it came time for winter racing, he could not match his illustrious predecessors. Rockhill Native campaigned in Florida, at times giving a good imitation of a colt slogging through the swamps, not tuning up for the Triple Crown. Horseplayers promptly started looking for other contenders...
...Keith Spalding, president of Franklin and Marshall College, points out, "very few private colleges depreciate their buildings. It is tempting to balance the budget by failing to fix the roof." Case in point: last year the University of New Hampshire neglected a leaky roof. Because of whiter snow seepage, not only the roof but ceilings and interior walls needed repair...
...training in the mountains since early 1978. The agents tote high-powered rifles, wear white camouflage suits and travel on skis along the trails on Whiteface Mountain, where the alpine events will take place. The sight of the team whooshing across a hillside recalls nothing so much as the whiter war in Finland during the Soviet invasion of 1939. Says Fell: "I hope security is not so tight that people won't enjoy themselves...
...sport's toughest, trickiest courses. One particular turn, the Zig-Zag, a high-banked 60° left turn for 165 ft., followed by an equally tight 170-ft. right turn, is deemed the most technically difficult in the world. More than 50 bobsled teams have crashed on the turn this whiter. When the run was opened in December for practice by U.S. and foreign teams, as many as four sleds a day were coming a cropper...