Word: files
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope to survive New Hampshire in the middle of the pack. "Nunn understands that he can't run as the 'conservative' in the race," says a Democratic strategist who has helped develop a possible campaign plan. "He would have to run as the tribune of the rank-and-file Democrats, the people who are locked out by the special interests and the activist establishment." Vital to a Nunn candidacy would be his likely support by the black leadership of Atlanta, especially John Lewis, a Congressman and civil rights hero who has urged him to run. Nunn backers believe that...
...Niekro brothers, 90, have not pitched 50 professional seasons without developing a certain look of innocence. "I wasn't marking the ball," Joe insisted, though a few blemished ones had arrived irregularly at the plate. "Like a lot of knuckle-ball pitchers, I occasionally file my nails after I warm up, and even between innings. Sometimes the emery board gets wet, so I have to go to the sandpaper." His brother believed...
...death and taxes one more of life's certainties: the Internal Revenue Service will always find fresh ways to make the former seem almost preferable to calculating the latter. Last week the IRS unveiled new filing forms made necessary by last year's tax-reform law. The estimated 13 million people who have a second mortgage, a home-equity loan or a refinanced mortgage during 1987 will need to fill out a two-page Form 8598, which comes with instructions that are twice as long as the form (estimated fill-out time, according to the IRS: 84 minutes). Some...
...begin with, we have asked two members of the Appointments Committee--Paul Weiler and Detlev Vagts (The "Convenors"-)--to take charge of ascertaining the reactions of outside experts to the material in the file written by members of the Faculty criticizing and defending Professor Dalton's manuscript...
...While the details of the procedure will be worked out in discussions between ourselves and the Convenors, I anticipate that, with your help, they will begin by persuading as many of the experts as possible to read the pertinent materials in the file and to respond to questions that the Convenors will put to them based on their own reading of the materials and on consultation with the appropriate faculty members, particularly those with special knowledge in this area. The aim of the questions will be to obtain the perspective of the outside experts on the internal debate...