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...fact, it was the idea of strong leadership that our current batch of candidates ran against. For the past two-and-a-half years, we have had ideologically strong and consistent leadership at the top of the council--leadership many have attacked for creating factions where there were previously none and pulling the council down into petty partisan politics. This argument ignores completely the history of the council...
...bother breaking out the Magic Markers and the masking tape to create yet another batch of tear-off posters to sell your used books...
...pays for future earnings, and in the same breath that Intel used to pronounce last quarter's tidy profits, it also warned of some tough months ahead. The stock got pounded. Ditto Kodak a few days later, except that its profits weren't so tidy. I'm expecting a batch of replays, and if it happens that way, analysts will be letting air out of their earnings estimates for months. So when stocks fall, don't bother looking for an explanation. It's earnings angst, and Wall Street is running out of tranquilizers...
Roughly speaking, the reporting and first-draft writing is done by the candidates, who number from about forty when a batch begins to try, to seven or eight when the most successful are elected editors. But as the poorest of them drop out or are dropped, the better ones are given more and more suggestions and assignments. If a candidate shows interest and industry, if he is accurate and reliable in writing up his news, and if he has any interest, intellectual, social, or athletic, which brings him into contact with some of the sources of College activity...
...batch of officers for the Asian-American Association (AAA) pledge to make the organization more accessible to the general student body...