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...that I am pro-Undergraduate Council and plan to work constructively toward that end. Nothing could be further from my true intentions or more against my moral code. If your reporters had taken the time to read my position paper. I clearly stated that my objective was to eventually abolish the Council...
...King's two major opponents, Finnegan, the former School Committee chairman, has run a campaign without ideas, without principle, and without conviction. Flynn, on the other hand, may be a man of conviction, but the many questions about his past opposition to busing--including a proposal to abolish mandatory education--and an inconsistent record on social issues can only lead one to believe that he does not have the political savvy to run the city...
Perhaps the state's main attraction for business is not what it has but what it does not have: pollution, congestion, crime (third-lowest rate in the U.S.), personal or corporate income taxes or, especially, restrictive banking laws. In 1980 the state became one of the first to abolish the usury limit on interest rates that banks may charge. In addition, Janklow, who then had been Governor barely a year, rammed a second bill through the legislature that included a specific invitation to an eager Citibank to relocate its credit-card computers. Financial institutions in Michigan and neighboring Nebraska...
...Labor campaign faltered, Thatcher re-entered the fray, fending off Healey's charges that she intended to abolish Britain's 35-year-old government-run medical-care system. Said she: "I have no more intention of dismantling the National Health Service than I have of dismantling Britain's defenses." But as she noted the Alliance's sharp rise in the polls, Thatcher momentarily, and perhaps for the first time in the campaign, seemed flustered. She warned of the possibility of electing a militant Labor government if too many people "thought it safe to give other parties...
...average Penn student is only here to get his degree and graduate. Cooper continues, noting that student apathy is so prevalent that in a recent referendum to abolish the Undergraduate Assembly, the referendum passed but was not binding since less than 20 percent of the eligible undergraduates voted...