Word: core
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...explanation for this unprecedented attack on the country's traditions of free and open debate is national security. But, as Lecturer on the Core Program Sissela Bok has observed, such efforts to suppress information usually weaken a democratic society--rather than strengthen it. "Short of turning an open society into a garrison state," she wrote recently in the Crimson, "it will simply not be possible to restrict trade, scholarship, scientific exchanges, publication and news reporting enough to achieve the desired society...
...with barely concealed joy. "We think it will go on right until California, and the longer their fight goes on, the better it is for us," said a senior White House official. Most G.O.P. strategists hope that Mondale emerges the winner. They doubt he can reach much beyond a core of 40% of the electorate, the old Democratic coalition of the poor, labor and minorities that worked for him in New York. Last week a Gallup poll showed Reagan's approval rating at 55% nationwide...
...might seem odd, then, that the core demand Jackson will press at the convention concerns the apparently technical matter of runoff primaries. But to Jackson it is central to his fundamental purpose: increasing black political power. Under the runoff system, which operates in ten Southern states and in some cities, two primaries are often necessary to decide a party nomination: if several candidates compete in the first and no one wins an outright majority, the two leaders must face each other in a second, runoff primary. In Jackson's view, this system prevents black candidates from winning office except...
...with Paul Allen, a friend and schoolmate, Gates formed a pint-size company, Traf-O-Data, that studied traffic patterns for small towns near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000. Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core tech-Is noid." He temporarily abandoned computers for a year in the early 1970s for such nontechnical pursuits as acting in the school play, but he did not lose his touch for making money. While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped...
...unlikely that he will be persuaded to step down soon. He has, if anything, become more determined to keep a tight grip on the country in the face of growing internal and external criticism. There are signs that his once unswerving military support has been reduced to a small core of hard-line generals. Various governments around the world have openly criticized him in recent months. For Pinochet, the most stinging criticism comes from the U.S.: only minutes before the protest began, the State Department sent a telex to the Chilean government urging it to enter into a dialogue with...