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...take him at his word," said Committee Member Terrence O'Connell, a Washington political consultant. "Now we're going to go ahead and do what we said we would do." Never mind that a presidential draft has not succeeded in modern times. Never mind that the avenue presenting the fewest technical barriers for the campaign would be an awkward "national surrogate" strategy involving a stand-in who would go on the stump, presumably pressing palms and kissing babies for Iacocca. There is no direct precedent for a substitute enunciating the views of a silent and absent candidate. Such a campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks, But No Thanks | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...reference: the .231 winning percentage is the Crimson's worst since 1951-'52 (when Harvard finished 5-17, .227); the six victories are the fewest since 1962-'63 (6-15); the 20 losses the most since...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Wait 'Til Next Year | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

...fewer than two dozen students appeal to prospective concentrators for a variety of reasons--a desire for personal attention, the attraction of the exotic and the desire to learn something outside the regular. Jean L. Gee '86 chose to major in Statistics, which shares the distinction of having the fewest concentrators with the department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, because she didn't want to be "just another Ec major." Joseph F. Rogers '86 decided to concentrate in a field new to him, Afro-American Studies, because he wanted to learn about a subject he had not been exposed...

Author: By Cecile E. Kuznitz, | Title: Good Concentrations Come in Small Packages | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson, which has scored more goals than any other team in the conference (87) and allowed the fewest (36), has a not too surprisingly lock on the top slots in the ECAC scoring and goaltending races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reflects on a 'Pot of Misery | 2/6/1986 | See Source »

...tabulate the election results, officials work from the bottom up. The candidates with the fewest 1's are immediately declared ineligible, and their ballots are redistributed to second choice candidates. If the second choice has already been elected or eliminated, the ballot is passed on to the third choice candidate...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: In PR, Pick As Many Candidates As You Like | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

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