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With the tough match against Western Ontario behind them, the racquetmen don't face any really stiff competition until well into reading period, when they face Princeton and Penn in back-to-back home contests. "Everyone is gunning for Princeton and Penn since the Ivy League championship is basically the same as the national team title," John Stubbs said...
...unspecified tax breaks for mills investing in antipollution equipment. This proposal would be included in the tax plan that Carter will send to Congress next year and would apply to all heavy industry. But the stiff cost of installing air-and water-purifying equipment required by the Government has been a particular sore point to steelmen...
Still, the declawed bill is backed by the congressional Black Caucus and myriad civil rights and women's organizations as well as Big Labor, all of which expect it to pass next year. For all its blandness, however, the measure is likely to run into stiff opposition from the increasingly powerful congressional business lobby. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's chief economist, Jack Carlson, has already asserted that the 4% goal could not be reached without boosting inflation to an annual rate of 10% or more...
...showcase of breathtaking choreography, but Young moved from pose to pose as though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense of fluid, organic wholeness was entirely lacking, and her uninspired dramatic portrayal had the same quality of something artificially imposed. Young's rather heavy build and stiff upper body contributed to the plodding effect; despite a certain mellow grace, this Swan Queen was far too earthbound...
...Although some scholarships to private schools were historically available for lower-class students, there was no free secondary schooling at all prior to World War II. In 1944, Britain decreed a dual track of public education: "secondary modern" and technical schools for the less talented, and grammar schools-with stiff entrance exams-which educate...