Word: cite
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UNDER THE PRESENT ELECTION laws, we can't "force" candidates to debate. Candidates adopt various reasons for opting out. Some cite national security reasons, others discomfort with the agenda or timetable, and still others worry about who will be included. Most often, one candidate will have more to lose by debating than his opponents...
Reagan, too, has been remarkably quiet about how he would put together a Government to carry out his promises. At this point, one of the best hopes he has for to deep doubts about his own knowledge and skill would be to cite a lustrous pool of talent from which he would draw the people for his Administration. It has not really worked out that way. Task forces are quietly shaping ideas for the transition and the programs that will follow should Reagan win. But the assault force that, in a change in Government, would descend on Washington and take...
FACULTY members and administrators regularly cite that reason to explain why Harvard's associate professors in the social sciences and humanities almost never receive promotions to tenured positions. Harvard demands proven excellence in its scholars; excellence takes a long time to prove; as a result, young scholars (in their 30s) rarely have had sufficient time to demonstrate the outstanding qualities that Harvard seeks. Science departments can more easily tenure young academics, the reasoning goes, because their rising stars usually make names for themselves early in their careers. In essence, the tenure system here has been a non-risk business...
...state was having trouble finding witnesses," and that without plea bargaining Snell might have gone scot free. Not so, insists Dade County Assistant State Attorney Leonard Glick: "I told the judge I had my witnesses." During Snell's sentencing, Glick protested so vehemently that Durant threatened to cite him for contempt of court...
...drinking going on. Liquor is still to be procured. Many drug stores are regular purveyors, and it is practically possible for any person familiar with local conditions and able to walk to secure from them such liquors as he may wish." to prove their claim, the authors cite arrest statistics from Cambridgeport in the year 1907. Of the 1306 people arrested, 774 were taken in for drunkenness, 135 for disturbing the peace, and 87 for crimes against chastity...