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...When we were written off [after the 0-2 start]" said Harvard Coach Joe Bernal, "we had to scratch, claw, bite and do just about everything. And that made it twice as sweet twice as rewarding to turn things around...
Republicans, conversely, hope that they will be able to ride the coattails of Ronald Reagan and his economic recovery and bite into the Democrats 268-167 advantage in the House. Letterer has just returned from a nation-wide trip with Rep. Guy Vander Jagt (R-Mich.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and says he found "people optimistic about the future and waiting to vote Republican. It's a complete turnaround from 1982, when everyone was depressed about the economy...
Under the auspices of the World Health Organization, 118 nations in 1981 approved a voluntary code to restrict promotion of infant formula. Three years later, Douglas A. Johnson, executive chairman of the Infant Formula Coalition, which organized the boycott, was able to eat a bite-sized Nestle bar, in celebration of the group's victory...
Shortly after Reagan took office, though, the Soviets concluded that they had been wrong about him. Americans often remark that Reagan's bark has been worse than his bite. After all, he lifted the embargo that Carter had clamped on U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan and proposed only mild and ineffectual economic sanctions in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland. But the Soviets have come to take Reagan at his word. Says a Kremlin specialist on American affairs: "With Carter, it was always interesting to read a speech...
...Held in Drowning of Two of Four Missing Children and Reagan Signs Bill to Pay U.S. Farmers Not to Produce Milk. No children. No milk. Nothing connects these items but the newspaper page on which both appear, and the reader's mind, ravenous as Pac-Man, prepared to bite off more than it can chew. In the evening, on television, more stories pile up. Gasoline Leaks Threaten Water Supplies and Sullivan is Electrocuted Despite Pope's Pleas. No water. No Sullivan. No visa: The Reagan Administration Rejects Visa Application from Nicaragua's Interior Minister. So goes...