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...here. I ordered three hot and sour and two shark fin. You got it exactly backward. The moo shu pork came without any pancakes and where are the lichee nuts...
There was no waffling, however, in the Administration's retaliation against the Krimsky expulsion. Deploring the "step backward from the objective of Helsinki," the State Department gave Washington-based Tass Correspondent Vladimir Alekseyev a week to pack his bags...
...department's faculty, weeded of "troublemakers," and consisting largely of people newly-hired by Southern, has not chosen to take a side, and is seemingly ignoring the controversy. The one remaining element is the students who are concerned about the future of Afro-American studies. As the department moves backward ideologically, repudiating the world-view and the political principles upon which it was built, one fact stands apparent: it was students who brought Afro-American studies to life at Harvard, and it must ultimately be students who prevent its demise
...joys of the job are that some days you do actually take four steps forward and only 3½ steps backward, and the tax system has been improved. I think there was some substance to some of the allegations about the use of tax information for political purposes in the past. I think that now Presidents, Cabinet members, Senators and Congressmen are treated like other taxpayers and will continue to be treated as such...
...SUPREME COURT'S recent ruling that company health plans need not provide benefits for disabilities related to pregnancy marks a serious step backward for women's rights in this country. By deciding (by a six-man majority) that General Electric need not give pregnant employees sick pay, the court lent legitimacy to the idea that motherhood and employment are mutually exclusive...