Word: efforts
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Expediency is often the father of contention. In a hurried effort to placate Jesse Jackson at last summer's Democratic Convention, Michael Dukakis and his forces ratified significant changes in the party's complex rules governing presidential nominating procedures. One alteration would drastically cut the number of superdelegates, party leaders who automatically become unpledged delegates. Another requires that all primaries and caucuses award delegates on the basis of proportional representation, as opposed to giving extra delegates to the winner in some state contests...
...Norway. As it wallowed, many of the 95 crew members rushed to life rafts and paddled away. A small flotilla of Soviet vessels sped to pick up survivors and also tried to tow the sub to safety. But rough seas and winds gusting to 46 m.p.h. soon dashed the effort. About six hours after the emergency began, the vessel sank in water more than 4,500 ft. deep, where even its tough hull would crumple like foil. At least 50 crewmen may have died...
...midst of the Offut controversy, a binding student body referendum forced the council actively to pursue divestment. But Offut's reelection as council chair in February of 1986 was interpreted as a conscious effort by council members to avoid political controversy and embrace issues--such as extending library hours and hosting social events--that would not alienate any segment of the student body...
...thus makes clear that Lt. Col. Oliver North's efforts to assist the Contras was part of a secret Administration effort to circumvent the Congressional ban and not the actions of a single zealot gone wild, as the administration repeatedly asserted...
Lottery Footnote: Activist M. Scott Murphy '92, who spearheaded the successful effort to prevent 25 percent of the spaces in eight of 12 upperclass houses from being randomly assigned to freshmen, will be living in his second choice house next year--Lowell House. Lowell was one of four houses which had refused to participate in the new housing plan. So much for the effort, Scott...