Word: edward
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Computer officials last week gave conflictingreports of the extent of the prank's damage. CoreCurriculum Director Edward T. Wilcox, who is alsovice chairman of the Ad Board, said last week thatthe pranksters "crashed the system"--making thecomputer stop functioning for several minutes--andthat withdrawal for one year was not excessive...
During a lull in Senate debate Thursday night, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution congratulating Roger Clemens for his performance that thrust the righthander into baseball lore...
Telexes were down. The lights in the hotel were out. Newspaper correspondents, like Edward Schumacher of the New York Times and G. Jefferson Price III of the Baltimore Sun, dictated a few paragraphs over ABC's open line during a lull in the barrage. Their reports, taped by ABC, were then passed on to their papers...
Many in Thatcher's own Tory Party were equally unsympathetic, particularly former Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, who pointed out that he had refused President Richard Nixon's request to use British bases for U.S. aircraft resupplying Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Even some members of Thatcher's Cabinet privately opposed her decision, though all supported it publicly...
...MIAMI. Contemplating the results of studies like those made at Rollins, University of Miami, Fla., President Edward Foote in 1981 began taking even more draconian measures. He ended the private university's undergraduate education program and told the graduate schools of nursing, law, education and medicine to pay their way. He stopped admitting virtually any warm undergraduate body that showed up, and began cutting enrollment from 12,000 toward 8,500, setting stiffer standards for entering freshmen. At the same time, Miami established schools of communications, architecture and international studies. Associate Provost James Ash openly admits that the purpose...