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...mean rock-piano style and a reputation of sorts as a soccer player for Bard College. But it was not until last fall, when he stepped before the cameras on Saturday Night, that Cornelius ("Chevy") Chase discovered his full potential. He fell over. Slowly, gracefully and with complete abandon, Chevy's 6-ft. 4-in. frame crumpled to the floor, accompanied by the giggles, then laughs and finally roars of laughter from the studio audience...
...would be no "dumping" of social-service functions on state and local governments, he said; instead, the transfer would be "orderly" and "phased." He argued that tax rates would be entirely up to state and local governments, since they would decide which federal programs to continue, cut back or abandon. Moreover, Reagan maintained, his scheme would provide additional tax savings for Americans by eliminating the large federal administrative costs and enabling the programs to be run more efficiently at lower levels...
...spell her books cast. By the time you have turned the first few pages of a typical Heyer, you are barely sensible of the existence of the lower classes, except in terms of the hero's feudal obligations to his old retainers. Even the most determined revolutionary has to abandon class analysis or feminist wrath in this world of the peerage, where such things are patently absurd. All you can do is give in to gooey-eyed sentimentality, and wonder with, say Judith Taverner if she has offended the patronesses of Almack's beyond recall...
...majority has a responsibility to respect those needs; does this mean that the majority should refrain from anything to which a significant minority objects, perhaps at the expense of being insensitive to needs of "majority students"? One suspects that if this were the case Harvard would have to abandon its four-day recess in November as being clearly discriminatory: there are many foreign students at Harvard for whom that break is doubtless too short a time to get home, even not to celebrate Thanksgiving...
British officials privately admit they see little hope of ever bringing South Armagh under control, and they doubt that Catholics who support "the boys" will be impressed even by such a major British gesture as London's recent decision to abandon its hated internment policy in Northern Ireland. "Militarily, it's a no-win situation," admits one official...