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Some teams, to conserve natural resources, get together during the season to sign non-aggression pacts. A good example of one of these non-aggression treaties is last year's National League East's Holy Alliance. In this balance-of-power division, six mediocre teams agreed to refrain from competing and produced a remarkably stable equilibrium--each club ended up near the .500 mark...
...Post's Stern, who was surprised to find his interview request granted, Vesco sang a similar refrain, adding: "I wouldn't go back home now if they granted me total immunity." In his televised phone talk with Vesco, which was filmed on both ends and aired on two consecutive nights last week, Cronkite got him to discuss some details of his own case. Vesco insisted that his gift to President Nixon's 1972 campaign was not intended to buy off an investigation of his affairs by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also said that...
...tramped the route, figured out the financing, and after years of evangelical effort persuaded a skeptical legislature to authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with every section, returning in tolls and levies its $7 million construction cost in less than ten years of completion...
...faithful animals, refuses to go along with them. "Nothing's wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot," says the mild Harry. This statement, along with "I hate the goddamn system, but I'll stick with it until something better comes along," is a constant refrain. Milius must hope that such repetition will coerce us to believe that Harry holds a full-dress trial in his head before he shoots, or that he hates the system for humane reasons...
...looked as if the dispute would be settled amicably. That hope rested in a compromise proposed by the powerful Trades Union Congress, which represents 10 million British workers. If the government would relax its Stage III anti-inflation guidelines for the miners, said the T.U.C., other unions would refrain from using it as a precedent for demanding raises above the 10% guideline limit. But after a perfunctory meeting with the T.U.C. last week. Heath flatly rejected the compromise...