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...make most of their major purchases from catalogues are often formidably well organized, and have to be. Chicagoan Toni Smith, for example, is an executive recruiter who is constantly on the road. She does all her Christmas shopping in a single day. "I cull out the most interesting catalogues beforehand," says Smith. "Then I do comparison shopping from one to another." From the ease of gift shopping she has learned to buy almost everything she needs by mail...
Many acknowledge that a mammoth gap exists between officials and vital undergraduate life, and yesterday the deans seemed bent on closing it. Epps, in particular, spoke beforehand in very certain terms about learning more intimately about current student concerns and communicating a different images for himself...
Even undergraduates not charged with great responsibility say they have enjoyed their headquarters work Mare O. Litt '84, has helped with advance work for the Dukakis campaign, occasionally driving to the site of a speaking engagement several times beforehand to see which route will be fastest. Says Litt of the rewards for hard work: "When I follow Dukakis to an interview, I see what he says during the talk, what they place that night on the news and what they print the next morning in the paper I have learned a lot about how the media covers campaigns...
Rhoads says a new convention should be called only if Congress enacts clear guidelines beforehand and if only one issue is selected for discussion. His list of possible Constitutional topics includes statehood for the District of Columbia, the Equal Rights Amendment and the Human Rights Amendment
...between the two men even before Thursday's attack. As Cabinet ministers complained more and more openly that they were not being informed, let alone consulted, on the progress of the war, Begin remarked, in an obvious gibe at Sharon: "I always know everything that goes on, either beforehand or afterward...