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With her athletic skills and her influence as a leader, Hayes has turned both the basketball and softball squads into bona fide contenders...
...about Harvard as an institution than it does about the specific issue at hand. Every informed person seems reasonably sure that the decision stemmed from a desire to avoid demonstrations or other "unpleasantries" directed against President Reagan, the most likely honorary recipient. If true, this is certainly a bona fide reason for the decision; no one wants Harvard to look stupid on national television. But why did the Corporation fear such disruption in the first place...
After Howard failed a routine lie detector test, the posting was canceled, and he was fired by the agency. Howard returned to his native New Mexico and became a bona fide economic analyst for the state legislative finance committee. After Yurchenko began identifying KGB "assets" in the U.S. during a lengthy debriefing, the FBI started a thorough background check on Howard, including interviews with co-workers and neighbors. Howard was last seen at his office on Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his supervisor found a letter announcing his resignation for "personal reasons." It is assumed that Howard fled...
...that has broad implications for older workers in many occupations, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the claim of Criswell and the others, ruling unanimously that employers must meet a stringent legal standard before they can institute blanket retirement rules. Being younger than 60 is not a "bona fide occupational qualification," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, unless it can be shown that all flight engineers over that age present a safety risk or that it is "highly impractical" to make individual judgments about their health...
...students, the Miami Dolphins, of Gos Ec majors with four exams and two papers due. January was a good month, however, for anyone who had been waiting for an intellectual apologia for cross-dressing as a cultural phenomenon. Androgvny has ostensibly moved from a more fashion had to bona-fide sociological thanks to endorsement, by two Harvard-linked journalist organs: Harvard Magazine and The New Republic...