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Since cross country times heavily depend on the course and the weather conditions, there are no world records in the sport. It is only through head-to-head competition that teams, and individuals, can test their mettle. The NCAA race is the meeting ground for the world's premier cross country runners--as captain Mark Meyer calls it, the "superbowl" of cross country...
...about 1.5 million bbl. That strike not only cost the government about $60 million a day in oil revenues, but also suddenly raised the specter of petroleum shortages in Japan, Israel, Western Europe and, to a much lesser degree, in the U.S.; all these countries depend in part on Iranian crude...
...debate on its content. By winning it, Callaghan should be able to stay in office until he decides to call elections, possibly in early spring or, at the latest, next October, when his government's statutory five-year mandate expires. As always in British elections, the timing will depend on the political winds. At the moment they are blowing Callaghan's way, in part because of the diverse stands that he and Thatcher have taken over incomes policies and their effect on Britain's inflation, now running at an annual rate...
...they are regressive (that is, they aren't scaled according to income, so that elderly people on fixed incomes are increasingly driven out of their homes because they can't afford to pay the taxes). Nor will Question 1 cut property taxes, as long as localities have come to depend on property taxes to finance the essential services like police, fire protection, and schools. The real answer to the burden of property taxes will only come when the state passes a graduated income tax and uses the proceeds to support local services now paid for by property taxes...
...angry they hit." Some women can be taught not to hurt their children simply by getting instruction, literally, in such things as how to do housework efficiently, care for the child properly, cook meals. Women who have been abandoned by husbands are frequent child abusers, though they often depend emotionally on the very children they hurt. Sometimes the emotional role is tragically reversed. Belisle recalls a hearing before a judge in which a mother was fighting a protective service attempt to put her small son up for adoption to protect him from her beating. The child fell while getting into...