Word: straying
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...numerable times to give opinions as complete and lengthy as edicts returned by our higher courts. You cannot smoke in the fencing room without offending fire marshals, the disciplinary committee, and sign painters. Coaches instructing players got argued with on certain points of technique. Little lost children and stray dogs visited briefly. Coach Marion consumed several sandwiches and a bag of doughnuts. Electronic gadgets rigged to register touches several times broke down beyond attendant Jock's understanding. Fencers, upon completing their individual duties, dressed hurriedly and departed for other amusements. There were those on the sidelines who envied them...
Ironically, to describe the new ideology of youthful alienation, Gerzon must draw heavily from the works of an older generation. This provides sorry comment on youth's intellectual contribution to its own dissent. Except for a stray quote from Simon and Garfunkel or Janis Ian, he must resort to synopses of Camus and Erikson...
...Stray Millions. The proposals for a uniform departmental budget cut, a pay-raise moratorium and personal salary reductions got nowhere. Nixon, however, made it clear that Government spending had to be cut down as close to $200 billion as possible. But snipping out $3 billion or so, even from a spending schedule of $203.5 billion, is far from easy. Expenditures such as debt service and pensions are mandated by law. Programs in other areas had already been subjected to the big squeeze. Yet the presidential directive insisted that more gristle be found. Higher excise taxes on consumer products-which Congress...
Thus the search began for stray millions. The new program to share federal revenue with the states will be retained-but trimmed from $535 million to $500 million. The defense budget, already chopped heavily, will lose perhaps another $400 million. Even the Justice Department, which had previously escaped the economy wave, will undergo some minor pruning. All department heads were directed to report back within days on their savings proposals. The Democratic Congress, however, is not so vulnerable to presidential discipline. Capitol Hill is still rebelling against some Nixon austerity measures in the current budget year. Under the twin fears...
...hang of Spectra. It has a very distinct maneuvering capability, even if it does drift in the turns. To be sure, the craft is not built for slaloming in the forest; even experts require at least a 20-ft. clearance to allow for drift. Nor would you want to stray very near railroad tracks or city streets: the decibel level from the two loud engines makes it impossible to hear any approaching traffic. But the sensation really is that of flying, of handling a light plane, and after a few hours of practice it is great...