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Defense was the name of the game in the second and third periods. Ball control seesawed with domination switching around the ten minute mark in each quarter. Both goalies played exceptionally well, thwarting any attack that the opposing offenses could muster...
...next two years. Last week the House approved a similar measure by a vote of 219-195. If the differences between the two versions can be ironed out, the bill will go to the President-for an almost certain veto. Congressional proponents will probably not be able to muster enough votes to override that veto. Result: public transportation in most U.S. cities will remain inadequate...
...bill imposing a mandatory death penalty on those convicted of eleven specific kinds of murder. The California law, which will take effect Jan. 1, is designed to get around the Supreme Court's objections to the arbitrary and capricious use of capital punishment. If the bill passes constitutional muster, California will again use the gas chamber. Reagan, however, was not entirely comfortable about that method of execution or indeed any of the methods in use around the world, ranging from the noose to the firing squad and the guillotine, which was originally adopted in France in 1792 upon...
...deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget; a ban on the use of congressionally appropriated funds to pay for bombing in Cambodia; emergency medical care; and, last week, an increase in the minimum wage from $1.60 an hour to $2.20. So far, Congress has been unable to muster the forces to override the vetoes, and more vetoes are sure to come. Certain to be rejected by the President, if Congress passes them, are two bills that would circumscribe his power. One would limit his ability to commit military forces to combat without congressional approval; the other would curtail...
...every scrap and morsel of attention, keeping logs and impossible hours, answering each derogation with a confidence foreshadowing with a wisdom and clairvoyance a perception far beyond its maturity, thrusting itself into the midst of its sport and claiming the only championship in crew that the Harvard community could muster. Radciffe crew outsone, outrowed, outpromoted the rest of the women's competition in the country, encroaching not only onto the Harvard crews' male dominance of the audience in Cambridge, but usurping with an irrepressible and undeniable drive the spotlight and front stage of the entire sport. Radcilffe crew, taking sprints...