Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choose to do so, the Faculty could have offered the student-composed constitution convention the benefits of their wisdom, but only in the form of advice--not veto. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, beggars cannot be choosers Students could, without Faculty approval, set up a centralized student government and elect representatives to it (Sounds like a Student Assembly to me) But since the Faculty control the money and authority-granting ability, we had no choice other than allowing them final approval of our plan if we wanted funding and access to student-Faculty committees...
Reagan took that advice with zest. At a Minnesota Independent Republican Party fund raiser to help re-elect Senator David Durenberger, the President started slowly but hit his stride by relying on a technique that had served him well in the past. Pointing to young people in the audience, he defended his unparalleled peacetime military spending as a campaign to make America "so strong that no other generation of young Americans will have to bleed their lives into foreign battlefields or beachheads some place out in the oceans." The Republican audience exploded with cheers...
...alternate informal procedure stipulates that a grievant try to resolve the complaint with an appropriate faculty member or administrator. If this effort fails, the grievant brings the case to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office; if the office cannot resolve the complaint, the grievant may elect to pursue the formal procedure...
...bills will find it difficult to get them approved by the liberal-dominated Judiciary Committee. But if they can get a "discharge petition," signed by a majority of the members, they can force a head-on floor vote. In the Republican Senate, where the New Right claims credit for electing up to a dozen new members in 1980, supporters will find it easier to force floor debates and to cut off the filibusters threatened by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. But the moral crusaders may discover that many of the freshmen they helped elect are now less anxious...
...gurus of the day, Mme. Blavatsky, and the cultural centers of Europe, including Munich, were as full of odd parareligious cults then as California is now. It was Mme. Blavatsky's opinion that before long the material world would vanish, leaving behind its "essence," a world of spirit. Elect souls, the survivors of this benevolent burnout, would communicate with one another in an immaterial manner whose proper art was abstract and ideal, composed of "thought-forms...