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...middle-class discontent has been strong enough so far to deny Bush the landslide that unemployment and inflation figures might lead a follower of conventional wisdom to expect, it has not been sufficiently powerful to keep Dukakis from running behind. Many Americans, of course, base their votes on noneconomic criteria. Others associate Democrats with 1970s stagflation; they think, rightly or wrongly, that the Reagan expansion will continue and eventually improve their own financial status. Those who are hazily aware that their relative position is slipping often refuse to admit, even to themselves, that they are losing upward mobility. More important...
...task they figured would delay the launch by at least a day. Taking no chances, NASA pushed back the launch time, while meteorologists continuously monitored the winds with weather balloons. Before long, the winds did shift and pick up a little, but they were still outside NASA's criteria for a launch. After a detailed analysis, the mission- management team agreed that the shuttle was not endangered. Astronaut Robert Crippen, charged with making the final go or no-go decision, had no qualms about waiving the wind restriction. Less than an hour after Discovery finally lifted off, an hour...
...York-based nonprofit organization that publishes an annual study of comparative levels of world freedom, 58 of the world's 167 nations in 1987 could be considered "free," 58 "partly free" and 51 "unfree." The Comparative Survey of Freedom is certainly not infallible in its estimates, but its criteria of evaluation, in both the political and civil spheres, are consistent. It asks, for example, whether opposition political parties may organize and compete for power, whether the press is free, or whether the government ever loses a case in the courts...
...Maybe in the context of all the colleges in the country we are on the liberal side, but I would never say that we are more liberal than any other institution like Yale, for instance," Bok said in a recent interview. "What does that mean? What are the criteria for 'liberal'? I wouldn't even know how to figure that...
Bequests often allow Harvard to expand the criteria for scholarships if no one has fulfilled the original prerequisites, Miller said. The William Pennoyer Bequest of 1670 offers assistance to any descendant of Robert Pennoyer, or, alternatively, a student born in New Haven...