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...make "high school English teachers cringe in disbelief"; they controvert the facts and convolute the issues. The "elocution is egregious," and the "underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious," (my emphasis added to Emmerich's observations), but oration can be the same as rhetoric, which is 90 per cent of Governor Finch...
...other 10 per cent is what he has actually done, and all of this is wrapped up in his push for succession. Somehow I fail to see how this actually benefits the people of Mississippi. It would be different if he were pushing for better schools, better health care, more commerce, etc., but these have been almost entirely ignored...
...South Africa. In 1976, Clark sent questionnaires to 260 firms operating in South Africa, asking for details of their labor, promotion, training and wage policies. One might expect that firms with especially poor records on racial policies would not reply to these queries. In fact, only about 30 per cent of the firms responded. Of that 30 per cent, some gave very incomplete and sketchy answers, and even among the companies that supplied sufficient documentation and detail, the report states there is "little evidence that U.S. firms adopted a socially conscious policy of avoiding support of the South African government...
...price for tuition, room and board has increased 141 per cent over the past seven years, to $6820, compared with a mere 62-per-cent hike at Harvard...
...South House delegation presented the results of a poll of 69 students--a random sample, the delegates said, because no specific group intentionally applies to South House--that showed that over 70 per cent opposed the special minority clause, and would consequently not vote to ratify the convention's constitution...