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What is it that Ted Kennedy does not know or cannot challenge in the voluminous three-year Carter record? The handling of the hostages in Iran, perhaps, but that is now truly a lesser issue on the political horizon. Carter has compiled this year a 75-page State of the Union report, a 636-page budget, an economic message that runs 329 ghastly pages. Each week Carter talks to hordes of visitors on the record, gives dinner toasts and speeches in the Rose Garden, lets visiting editors interview him. His words and ideas and moods, his presence, flood the wires...
...islands in the Antilles where Lesser is more...
...Every country in the world today, in a lesser or a greater degree, depends on other countries. I tell you that never, never, has the Soviet government tried to tell Cuba what it should do in matters of domestic policy or international policy...
...costs, schools will be under pressure to hawk their wares in the student marketplace. As the council sees it, the result will be a shift away from traditional academic disciplines and toward instruction in vocational skills like nursing and accounting. The change is already visible in community colleges and lesser-ranked four-year institutions. Observes the report: "Excellence was the theme. Now it is survival...
...givers usually know precious little about a sector of the economy that in 1978 claimed a record $39.6 billion-an average of $180 for every man, woman and child in the nation -for donations to the Red Cross, United Way, CARE, the March of Dimes and some 800,000 lesser organizations raising money in the name of charity...