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...then came the miracle rally in the Cornell game--the turning point of the season. "Without a doubt, winning the second game against Cornell iff where it all started," Harvard coach Loyal Park said. From that point, the Crimson bandwagon was off and running...
House members have climbed onto the full-disclosure bandwagon as well. Several have set $100 limits on their cash campaign contributions. The Congress men engaging in such admirable self-imposed financial restraint, though they may vary in personal philosophy, share one important political attribute: all are incumbents. An unknown candidate for public office still needs expensive advertising to make himself known and put his case before the voters, and hence needs more money. To close that gap, a comprehensive public campaign funding bill remains a vital item on the nation's agenda...
...that alcoholic employees are costing them countless billions a year, many companies are investing money and effort in affirmative action. Since the late '40s, when the first industrial programs started, some 200 firms, including General Motors, Hughes Aircraft and even Hiram Walker, the distiller, have jumped on the bandwagon, the majority of them in the past five years. Many of the firms have written the plans into their union contracts...
...Dinner held in the Laurel County High School gym at London, Ky. As he rose to speak, the object of the Republicans' affection smiled modestly and let the pledge and its portents go by without comment. Vice President Gerald Ford was much too careful to start his own bandwagon rolling at this early date, yet the fact that it was already moving showed how prized he is by the Republicans...
...their pell-mell and sometimes unseemly rush to ensure harmony on campus, many college administrators agreed to institute some form of pass/fail grading. By 1971 an estimated three-quarters of the nation's colleges and universities were offering alternatives to traditional marking systems. Eager to ride the professional bandwagon, a number of high schools and grade schools were quick to follow...