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...eyes of newsmen who have worked on the story. The first leaks on the Agnew case did not even come from the Justice Department. They came from political sources in Maryland who got an idea what was afoot from questions being asked by investigators. Agnew quickly confirmed that an investigation was under way. A succession of leaks ensued from the White House and the Vice President's office. Only then did the Justice Department leaks begin. In the circumstances, they could have been designed merely to demonstrate what the President himself said last week: that the charges against Agnew...
...powerful jaws equipped with two long fangs that it could use like daggers to rip into large prey, notably the poky, plant-eating mastodons that also inhabited the American continent. When the elephant-like mastodons began to die out, the sabertooth's days were also numbered. Slower afoot than modern tigers and possessed of a smaller brain, the sabertooth could not keep up with speedier prey that might have assured its survival. Indeed, archaeological dating of the remains of sabertooths found in Los Angeles' Rancho La Brea tar pits suggests that the last sabertooths vanished from North America...
...really." Meant what? That it's fine for women to mouth complaints about their position in society as long as they don't do anything serious about it? That one or two or three of them sitting together is all right, but any more than that means conspiracy is afoot? Or were these one-night transvestites unconsciously trying to tell us that they're not too sure about their own self-images? "They said they wanted to talk about all-female problems. We thought that those were problems you wouldn't talk about at the table anyway," one Holmes Hall...
...hanging out on your streetcorners. It is the two-and-a-half-year-old Youth Resources Bureau, the only social service agency in town specifically mandated to deal with "juvenile delinquency." The day Kevin died of an OD there were no formal programs for Riverside. But plans were afoot--for a program that would teach black girls their self-identity, through a cosmetics course...
...interest in undergraduate education further convinced some Faculty members that a subtle movement was afoot to draw the critical decision-making functions of the Faculty to the President's office. Many remain convinced that the movement is all too real...