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...Johnson plays Jackson with a self-depreciating, off-the-cuff with that evolves into passion and outrage, bordering on frenzy when he tells of the horrors he witnessed and the frustrations he felt. David Clennon is an adequate psychiatric sounding board, although he sometimes moves and gestures in a stiff and awkward...
...advises him. Last year Jackson pledged not to increase property taxes. More recently he decided that if he could not raise more revenue, "there won't be enough money to fill the potholes in the streets." With no advance warning, he came out in favor of a stiff 15% increase in the property tax. When the city council cut his request by half, he exploded in anger, calling the vote a "victory for the rich against the poor." Complained a white businessman: "Here we're trying like hell to get confidence and trust going both ways...
McCurdy expects stiff competition from the Princeton team next week. "They are a strong team, and they beat us earlier in the indoor season...
When four European NATO countries formed a consortium last year to buy 350 new lightweight fighter planes, a stiff competition ensued for what was quickly dubbed the "arms contract of the century." Last week the Defense Ministers of Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway announced jointly that the best and least expensive contender for the prize was the $6 million American-built F16, designed and manufactured by General Dynamics Corp., the largest defense contractor in the U.S. Final approval by the four governments, expected by mid-May, will mean about $2.1 billion in sales for the St. Louis-based company...
...serves as a "back-up." The student thinks, perhaps optimistically, that it will land him a job as a government clerk, if he cannot find anything better by June. For others, the rating is a prerequisite for a government internship program, and the competition for these jobs can be stiff. After Ruemelin ran a notice in the OGCP newsletter advertising 15 pre-law internships in Washington 15 to 20 people came into the OGCP every day for a week for more information--a number "up noticeably" from last year...