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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine, which is distributed free on university campuses, said that the course was "recognized as the easiest five credits a Stanford student can earn...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Controversial Stanford Prof Heads East | 7/31/1984 | See Source »

...attitude and his ability made him a clear choice to be Harvard's 110th captain. "Joe was the easiest choice for captain that we've had for a long time," Dailey says. "He's basically a player's type of captain. Everybody likes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOE AZELBY | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Well-liked by the coaching staff, Azelby is also admired by his teammates. "Joe was the easiest choice for captain that we've had in a long time," Dailey said. "Sometimes we had to vote on three or four ballots, but it only took one with Joe. He's basically a player's type of captain. Everybody likes the kid. He deserves everything he's received...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Football Captain Joe Azelby: From the Ivies to the NFL | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

...undocketed resolution whose passage would have required the Council to waive one of the rules it had passed overwhelmingly earlier that same night. While several aspects of the resolution argued against its adoption, its violation of a precedent so recently established was merely the most obvious and the easiest to understand. The Council did indeed discuss at length whether to preserve the precedent, and in the end decided to respect procedural norms. The Council's discussion of procedure, however, does not justify the statement that it was "tangled in procedural arguments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Procedure | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...easiest riposte to such new political thought is to claim it does not exist ("Where's the beef?"). By dismissing a new notion out of hand, a critic hopes to pre-empt debate on the idea without being forced to wrestle with the merit or the substance. For longer than anyone in Washington can remember, Presidents have been confronted by frothing opponents who claim, "He has no foreign [or domestic] policy." Translated, that generally means, "I won't accept his ideas but I don't have anything of my own." Fortunately, such obfuscation does not prevail long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The Older the Newer | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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