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...STRANGE WAY, the practicality, the pre- or even post-professionalism that is openly touted throughout the course book, is almost cathartic. The anti-liberal education tendencies that float below the surface of the Harvard that exists between September and June explode in an orgy of blatantly useful computer or financial or writing courses...
...Cuomo illustrates the dilemma. He is perhaps the most prominently mentioned alternative. Yet having endorsed Mondale and helped him mightily to win the New York primary, Cuomo is not about to turncoat. Nor would most of the delegates want to embrace such an untested, unknown prospect. Various other names float about: Party Elder Robert Strauss, Former California Governor Jerry Brown, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, even Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca. But all carry liabilities of either too little reputation or too much, and none have paid the same dues on the campaign trail as Mondale, Hart...
...about the recent weak price of coal, which dropped from $52 to $40 a ton in the important Japanese market last year. He believes oil prices are on the rebound and that the price of coal will go up. In the Chinese deal, the price will be allowed to float with world supply and demand, but the miners' wages still have to be worked out. At one point, the Chinese insisted that their miners be paid $12 an hour, nearly what U.S. miners get on average. Occidental thought that was unreasonable...
...into the water, the paddles fall off and you float down the river." Joshua N. Gert '87 said of his two-man paddler...
...script called for Nelson to float to within arm's reach of Max's 7-ft.-long, windmill-Uke solar array panels and fire the minijets on his MMU to match Max's spin of one revolution every 6 min. Using a trunnion-pin attachment device (TPAD), a hollow canister-shaped mechanism strapped like a huge belly button to the chest of his suit, Nelson would gently bump the 5,000-lb. satellite's protruding trunnion pin (installed for just such a rescue). Three rubber-coated, spring-loaded jaws in Nelson's TPAD were supposed...