Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT IS MOST troubling about this confusion is what it says about the state of student leadership, not about the legitimacy of a slightly misunderstood referendum. It is discouraging that the organization of the referendum was, by default, left to essentially one student: Constitutional Convention Chairman Leonard T. Mendonca '83. Because of multiple concerns of the referendum which Mendonca had to plan and coordinate with the Faculty, it is more understandable that the election had a quirk. Even more amazing is the rapid ascendancy of L. Gerome Smith '84 to a position of leadership. After collecting about 100 signatures...
...Jaws' elasmobranch villain to slip into for the Oscars. There were the usual parades of plushy furs by Fendi and dazzling knitwear by Missoni, but even Gianfranco Ferré, who made the week's best showing with a severely drafted, almost architectural collection, took honors by default...
Though Washington understandably wants its loans repaid, none of the U.S.'s 14 multinational banks that have lent funds to Rumania is anxious to see the country declared in default. Rumania's repayment record has been steadily deteriorating in recent years, but default could serve mainly to drive Rumania closer to Moscow, diluting Ceau§escu's longtime role as an independent voice in East bloc foreign affairs. For now, about all Washington can do is refuse new credits, and that it has done. As a way of keeping up pressure for payments of existing debt, Ronald...
...control. Moreover, he argues, to draw any shocked or outraged response from an increasingly desensitized public requires "more and more chilling demonstrations" of the horror of nuclear war. But paradoxically people simply grow desensitized to the demonstrations. This most vicious of vicious circles creates a kind of consensus by default for the bellicose plans of "thinkables" in the Pentagon and the Kremlin...
Despite these credentials, McConnell will not win the intercollegiates by default, Fifty-nine other players, from 22 different schools, will be vying for the coveted title. Trinity's Nina Porter, a virtual one-woman team who led her squad to third place in the national rankings this season, is the second seed and the only player to have beaten McConnell this year. A sophomore, Porter knows what it's like to be overshadowed--she finished runner-up to Pine Manor's Jane Giammatti in last year's intercollegiates...