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...numbers of voters. Says one White House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious. "She is a historical celebrity," he says. "Whether they support her or not, they applaud the fact that one more barrier has been broken...
...applaud the College's recent decision to encourage more student-faculty interaction by offering meal tickets to each undergraduate--allowing the professor to join the student in question for a meal in a dining hall at no charge. Administrators reason, quite plausibly, that one-on-one contact is most effective when student-initiated, so that it pays to do everything possible to encourage students to approach the faculty. Free meal passes remove some of the awkwardness for a student wishing to invite a professor to a meal and, perhaps more importantly, may give some students the idea actually to approach...
...doctors, who suggested that although she is not a heavy drinker she ought to halt even social drinking, which can be dangerous for diabetics. One of those concerned physicians was her husband of ten months, Robert Levine, 30, a cardiologist, who says, "I am very proud of her and applaud her for doing this." Moore, who now says she is "feeling wonderful," expects to be out and about in early October...
...Republic decided that "religion would be here and was between ourselves and our God, and the politicians would be over there-and we'd never get the two mixed up . . . In America, faith is personal and honest and uncorrupted by political interference." As the crowd leaped up to applaud once again, Mondale added a kind of secular amen: "May it always be that...
...applaud the ACSR decision and call on President Bok and the Corporation to drop their less and less convincing defense of American corporate investment in South Africa as a valid route to abolishing apartheid...