Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, the candidates say their own outsider status gives them the perspective to fix council problems they have seen in action this fall...
...council's first priority should be reestablishing strong connections to the student body that it purports to represent. She has advocated a "Harvard Census 2000" and placing council feedback cards in the dining halls--measures that are useful as a first step, but will accomplish little without further action...
Both Botterill and Shewchuk returned to action against Brown last Thursday, but the Crimson could not hold a 4-1 lead going into the third period and ended up with a 4-4 tie against the Bears...
...Microsoft case. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last month appointed Posner to try to mediate the case, and the action has now moved from Jackson's courthouse in Washington to Chicago, where Posner is presiding over closed-door conferences intended to push Microsoft and the Justice Department toward settlement. It's a daunting task: the government seems to want a lot more than Microsoft is willing to give up. But if anyone can get an agreement, it may be the brilliant and insanely workaholic Posner...
...parts of his history. According to the compelling evidence gathered by Major League Baseball on his gambling habits, Pete never bet on his Reds to lose a game. But he didn't always bet on them to win. The implications remain troubling: what would a bookie taking Rose's action infer if the manager of the Reds, who bet on them regularly, didn't bet on them that particular day? "There had not been such grave allegations since the time of [Kenesaw Mountain] Landis," said then commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989, referring to the commissioner who cleaned...