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...state legislature can amend or even abolish the proposition, but Sullivan said he does not think "they have any idea how to address this problem...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and Wendy L. Wall, S | Title: Voters Handily Pass Proposition 2 1/2 | 11/5/1980 | See Source »

Thomas Larkin appears to have won his bid for a Democratic nomination for a county commissioner seat, but his plans to abolish county government will probably be blocked by incumbent Michael McLaughlin, who picked up the nomination for the other county commissioner opening in last night's primary...

Author: By County Races, | Title: Shannon, Frank Win Close Elections | 9/17/1980 | See Source »

...future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature...

Author: By George Orwell, | Title: 1984 | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...Hubert Humphrey as their nominee, while Boss Richard Daley jeered at his critics inside the convention hall and his policemen beat antiwar demonstrators outside. To make the nomination process more fairly reflect the wishes of the party's rank and file, the reformers persuaded the National Convention to abolish the unit rule, which allowed all of a state's delegate votes to be cast for a single nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Rule That Binds | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

Though I disagree with much of the rhetoric delivered by Yale President A. Barlet Giamatti, who recently called for the Ivy League to downgrade its recruiting efforts and perhaps abolish playoff competition, I sympathize with the spirit of his remarks. He urges a realistic recognition of what the Ivy League is about, and that is --most of all-scholarly enterprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

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