Word: com
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basis of Harvard officials' comment yesterday, it appears that the Overseers' investigation into the highly charged com- pliants of University expansion three years ago 9 as little more than a commonly used method of diverting public attention from the council's formal protest...
Johnson also coached had team U.S.A com prised of 23 NHL to a surprising fourth place finish in the Canada Cup Tournament last year It goes without saying that he knows a lot about hockey And he also knows a thing of two about Harvard Hockey...
Like two knights locked in endless com bat, Ronald Reagan and legal services lawyers are undying adversaries. During his eight years as Governor of California, Reagan constantly urged the Nixon Ad ministration to end all federal support for free legal services for the poor in civil cases. In 1970, the Governor vetoed a $1.8 million grant to California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) because a Reagan-requested inquiry had found 135 apparent incidents of misconduct by the group's lawyers. CRLA survived that threat when a three-judge commission declared the charges "unfounded and without merit...
Breaks does have the occasional (and perhaps inevitable) excess, the overripe prose, the gimpy metaphor, the Jabbar-sized sentence. An example: "Indeed, Paxson, who was white, looked like the star of a new television sit-com about a healthy happy-go lucky midwestern college student who was always trying to borrow his parents' car and getting into trouble, but the kind of trouble that is easily rectified. (That is, no hard drugs.)" The book definitely suffers, too, for its lack of photographs, which would have helped in keeping the many names straight...
...military forces since 1966. Still, NATO planners have always assumed that the French would close ranks if war came. Indeed, Premier Pierre Mauroy pledges: "France intends to remain faithful to its allies, with the U.S. in the front row." Hernu argues that, ironically, France's withdrawal from the com mand structure of NATO, a move that gravely strained ties with the U.S., now makes France a stronger ally. "If France were fully inside NATO, Frenchmen might go to sleep, saying to themselves, 'Oh, well, the Americans are there with their nuclear umbrella. There is no point...