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David Sullivan again won the majority of student votes, picking up more than 150 in 6-3 alone. But many of those voting were freshmen or sophomores not even in the city during the last election; Sullivan won them almost by default, mounting the only serious campaign effort in the dorms...
...moment, certainly: the victory was the President's most astonishing yet, and his budget and tax triumphs last spring were authentic astonishers. Only two weeks earlier, the House had voted against the $8.5 billion Saudi deal by a resounding 301 to 111. Reagan had let that vote go by default, concentrating on the Republican-controlled Senate, which would have to concur if the sale were to be defeated.? Yet even in the Senate, rejection also seemed likely. Two days before the vote, opponents counted 55 Senators committed to or leaning toward rejection. Reagan had to switch the votes...
...Growing faster than anyone could imagine, much less control, the city encouraged reckless passions and unclean souls. Money and sex ruled over millions of greedy and lusty supplicants. And the millions had to contend only with each other because the rest of the world--either by design or by default--had decided to let Los Angeles grow on its own. Winner take...
Karpov, a slightly built, coldly articulate Soviet, checked into the Riz Stefanie hotel along with 18 assistants, 4,000 volumes on chess and boundless disgust for the challenger. "Korchnoi must have the right atmosphere to play well," sniffed Karpov. He took the world championship by default in 1975 when the reigning champion, American Bobby Fischer, refused to defend his title. Since then Karpov has played more tournaments than any other modern champion, in an apparent effort to legitimize his easy accession to the crown...
Under the GSL program, the government guarantees the loans against default and pays banks the difference between the student interest rate, now set at 9 per cent, and market interest rates, which stand at 15.5 per cent. The government also pays the interest while students are in school...