Word: half-dozen
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...facts have come to light, the press has not hesitated to rake White over the coals The Boston Globe led the charge last summer when it parted ways with White, who it had endorsed four times: "Of the half-dozen candidates now running," declared a Globe editorial, "any of them would be preferable to Kevin White in 1983." Since then, not only has the criticism increased, but, strangely, it has spawned another, more benign sentiment: White shouldn't run because, hurt by the corruption issue, he has no chance of winning. The New York Times jumped into the act last...
...case. Corbat--an all-Ivy offensive guard on the Harvard football team--may be a dear to the people who work in the dining hall, but he certainly isn't dear to his opponents. People who are dears on the field don't get contacted by at least a half-dozen teams informing him of the possibilities of his playing in the National Football League...
...commercial and militaristic emphasis of the shuttle project has to some extent come at the expense of pure research. When the plans for the shuttle were first unveiled, a half-dozen teams of scientists at the joint Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysics center in Cambridge received the thumbs-up to numerous projects designed for the shuttle. That number has dropped since then, with only one endeavor--an infra-red telescope--having a reservation for a trip in the near future and still receiving full NASA backing. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian center are now anxiously awaiting the green-light on projects...
...Richard Wirthlin, who does his polling for Republican candidates and the White House, said he saw no sign of a late Democratic surge. He said the Republicans probably will lose 20 to 24 House seats, hold control in the Senate, and drop a half-dozen governor-ships to the Democrats...
MOTOWN'S IN L.A. NOW. And the Motown acts which still skip around the country deliver performances which are mere shadows of the steamy Motown era. The Four Tops, wearing matching but noticeably larger suits, now sing only a medley of their half-dozen super hits, apparently lacking the stamina to bring the house down with full versions of "Standin' in the Shadows of Love" and "Reach Out I'll Be There...