Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laurence I. Barrett reports: If the election were held today, Reagan would have virtually no chance against Carter in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; his prospects in Maryland and Delaware would be very slim. Ford would probably not win these states either, but he would make it a closer fight and might just take New Jersey. Voters in this region consider Reagan to be too conservative, too disdainful of the asphalt agonies of Buffalo, Newark, Philadelphia and New York. Ford finally did help keep New York afloat, and he is considered safe and sensible on foreign policy. Party leaders...
...just a shade more subdued. But he was still a believer. "I'm an optimist," he said. "It's a great thrill being President... Betty and I are well adjusted [to White House life]; the children have gotten along well; I think it has brought our family closer together. Our children have matured very well in the White House. It's been helpful to them. I'm absolutely enthusiastic about...
...itching to move back to California after seven years as a running back for the Buffalo Bills. "I've paid my dues in Buffalo," he feels. So, too, does his wife Marguerite, who refuses to leave Los Angeles. So O.J. is looking for locker space with some team closer to home and his acting career, in which he has appeared most recently as a North African paterfamilias in the ABC-TV movie Roots. He has also signed up for lessons with Drama Coach Lee Strasberg, which is an approved way of paying dues in Hollywood...
...that communications between students and the various concentrations be improved, however, the task force continues to waffle. Martin says he is unsure what should be done with selective enrollment, or elite, majors like Social Studies, History and Literature and History of Science, although he acknowledges the need for the closer interaction between students and departmental faculty provided by the elite majors. "We have looked seriously to alternatives to the present system which would allow these concentrations to keep their limited enrollment but would have them admit students at a later point," Martin says. Under this proposal, sophomore tutorials in elite...
...major University by holding up a can of vegetables, or when some vegetable and his wife defraud Harvard Law School, or, indeed, when a bunch of wilting females decide to revert to prehistory by forming a new finals club, you know the Revolution just isn't getting any closer. It's enough to make a vegetarian cringe. Even the Pusey Library's gone underground...Well, maybe things'll shape up next year--we tend to think they won't--but at least we've got one small consolation: We're all in this together, baby...