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...whole team played well," Barnaby said yesterday. "We did as well as could've been expected. But watching mighty Princeton win, we just chuckled, because we beat them. The better Princeton did, the better we looked, and the fatter we felt...
...Last week, at a Boston convention of Teamsters representing warehousemen, Fitzsimmons moved through crowds of overfed men in white shoes who sported FITZ IN '76 buttons. Whatever the result of the election, or the Hoffa case, the outlook for the Teamsters seems to be more members, fatter contracts, richer pension funds -and more corruption...
DIGGING THROUGH the fatter-than-ever course catalogue, the Humanities situation looks discouraging, at best. General Education is in a sad state of limbo, and the Humanities may be suffering the most. Dean Rosovsky's commission to reinvestigate undergraduate education should not simply look for remedies for the ills of an outdated system of General Education, but attempt to rebuild the entire structure that is presently in ruin...
Democrats: Either outright gasoline rationing or a gasoline tax increase of up to 100 per gal. or mandatory allocation of oil and other sources of energy-or some combination of those options. Also, fatter excise taxes on big cars...
...countries have long suffered from high inflation because they were living beyond their means for years. Particularly in the West's mass-consumer societies, the poor wanted to live like the middle class, and the middle class wanted to live like the rich. Demands piled up?for more goods, fatter wages, higher social welfare?and prices soared. Still, by best estimates, the rise in energy prices caused one-quarter to one-third of the world's inflation last year. As the price of oil increased, it kicked up the prices of countless oil-based products, including fertilizers, petrochemicals and synthetic...