Word: filed
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...nation's largest union local but also holds considerable sway over the country's biggest local school system. During New York City's fiscal crisis, Shanker has emerged as the toughest and most intransigent of its municipal labor leaders, backed by an equally determined rank and file that deeply believe in the simple rubric he has taught them: "Power is a good thing. It is better than powerlessness...
...cocktail reception before a "Circus Saints and Sinners" charity luncheon in Washington, two bare-breasted belly dancers were ogled by, among others, a sprinkling of admirals and generals. Little wonder that Stevenson has sought legal counsel to have his post restored and the letter of reprimand removed from his file...
...envisioned by both the PCP and the PSP. Loosely allied to Maoist, Trotskyist and anarchist parties, Carvalho has received only sporadic formal support among industrial and agricultural workers, who comprise perhaps 30 per cent of the country. But Carvalho is personally popular, supported by a widely based rank and file movement for workers' control similar to the one which precipitated last March's decree nationalizing banks and insurance companies by taking over those institutions...
Once an application is complete in all respects (i.e. teacher reports, test scores, etc. are in), the folder is removed from the office's "dead file" and released to be read by admissions officials. An application will get two, sometimes three preliminary readings...
...office receives phone calls, letters and visits from parents and students who want their case reconsidered, but the policy of the admissions office is not to give then a second look unless some information in the file is proved false. To parents who want to know why their child was rejected, Reardon says, "It is is a fallible committee. We're not like the pope. It could be wrong but that is the decision of the committee...