Word: feds
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...Theory. The ECAC is the weaker conference in the East and therefore, the committee could bend tradition to ensure that the ECAC got the best possible chance to send one representative to the Final Four. Giving Harvard home ice represents that best chance. Along these same lines, the committee fed the tournament champion, Cornell, to the lions--sent it to Denver--because it felt the Red was doomed in this clash of titans anyway...
...been reluctant to turn in their colleagues for drug use. They have been afraid of ruining their co-workers' careers and of being ostracized for snitching. In addition, they could not be sure that management would believe them or back them up. But more and more employees are becoming fed up with working alongside people who are stoned. Says a news correspondent for a major New York City TV station: "After all, you work for days sometimes to make a story the best you can, and then some drug-abusing idiot pushes the wrong button when...
...Rights Act of 1964, institutions which receive federal funds have been subjects to some of the strongest provisions of anti-discrimination law. That act--as well as subsequent legislation on educational aid and discrimination against the elderly and handicapped--has required institutions and programs which are funded by the fed eral government to avoid discriminating at all on the basis of race, sex, age or disability, even in departments or programs which receive no direct help from the government...
Worse, analysts predict that falling petroleum prices may cost Egypt an additional $700 million in export revenues this year. Plummeting revenues have forced the government to cut back on the $7 billion that it spends in subsidies for basic goods such as bread and gasoline, and this has fed popular discontent...
...Thank God no one was in the shower," said Maeglin. "I'm fed up basically. Few people understand what conditions are like up here...