Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Muskie will start with some grave handicaps. Although he has served for six years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is no expert on U.S. policy abroad. Last week officials overseas were trying desperately to learn more about him. The Japanese Foreign Ministry hastily put together a two-page background memo on Muskie, but, admitted one official, "it only contained what has been in the newspapers...
Muskie's relations with Carter got off to a bad start in the first year of the new Administration. The Senator detonated when Carter abruptly abandoned the Administration's proposal for a $50 income tax rebate to stimulate the economy. The President broke a public promise, charged Muskie, and disappointed people who expected to get the money. The Senator exploded again when Carter announced a hit list of water projects, including the Dickey-Lincoln dam in Maine that Muskie wanted. The President later prudently withdrew the Maine project from his list...
Sophomore ace Greg Myers (2-1, 1.04 in EIBL) is slated to start, but Big Red coach Ted Thoren can summon Jay Kebylarz (3-0, 1.64) and John Jameson (2-0, 1.93) from the bullpen at the first sign of trouble. All three have baffled Eastern League hitters during the campaign, with Myers hurling especially well; he has allowed only twelve hits and seven walks in 26 innings while striking...
...cold, gray day in February, and the Radcliffe heavies must face the grim weight circuits, tanks, and ergometers. The crew knows the workouts will get harder, longer. A subdued atmosphere bred by depression engulfs the boathouse, until co-captains Kelly Ronan and Karen Spencer trade quips, start laughing, and the crew loosens...
...feminist, I find it appalling. I find it even more appalling that a supposedly "anti-sexist" paper would include it. This can indicate only a lack of serious thought into what constitutes women's opression in our country, and how it manifests itself in many forms, including "literature." Well, start thinking. Politics is more than two columns of editorials twice a week...