Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington Post Writer's Group, which holds copyright privileges, later approved restricted use of the character. President-elect Munchow said that he "assumed" that using Opus would not be a problem...
...administration "would have no sympathy with those who seek to seize the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambition." He believed that, "when properly directed, there is no people not fitted for self-government," and took it upon himself to "teach the South Americans to elect good...
...their fields elsewhere underscores the sense of the dean's proposal. If the University doesn't begin to take an interest in the careers of those who chose to work here as junior faculty, it is likely that fewer of the nation's top young scholars will elect that choice. Increasingly, hot young academics have opted not to come to Harvard, where they know they don't have a shot at tenure, and chosen universities that offered at least the chance of a long-term position...
Next week the 4,142 voters of Carmel will elect a mayor. New York City or Chicago should have such a choice. The incumbent, Charlotte Townsend, 61, is a no-nonsense woman who cut her teeth on the board of the village library. Paul Laub, 41, who has amassed a million or so as Carmel's czar of schlock, purveying T shirts and other bric-a-brac, made his name fighting city hall over issues like illegally washing his sidewalk. A college-trained tenor and restaurant worker named Tim Grady, 27, an echo of the Woodstock generation...
...border agreement follows the election last month of Costa Rican President-elect Oscar Arias Sanchez. Shortly after his victory, the feuding neighbors resumed relations and exchanged new ambassadors. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra was quick to portray the accord as evidence of his country's desire for peace in the region. The Reagan Administration, which last week asked Congress for an additional $100 million in aid for the contras, was unimpressed. Said a State Department spokesman: "It's nice they're having these bilateral accords, but they can't take the place of a regional, verifiable settlement...