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However, because of the vagueness of the Faculty resolution, two of the major issues in the Afro-American Studies debate--joint concentrations and the role of students in the Department--will remain in a state of flux until new faculty members arrive at Harvard...
...Crimson's tenth spot is "still in flux," Barnaby said, with Steve Meed Dick Cashin, and The Morgan presently battling for the bottom rang on the ladder...
...many of the McGovern tax proposals are still in flux, and many analysts believe that he will have to hit at least the upper middle class taxpayers harder than this $20,000 dividing point suggests if his various spending programs are to be feasible. His call for the elimination of tax loopholes has not yet focused on precisely which ones would be axed; many of them benefit many more taxpayers than just the wealthy. Moreover, his proposals for a stiff rise (as much as $17 billion) in corporate taxes could limit business investment, expansion and dividends. The prospect frightens Wall...
...John, a milkman, made the last payment on their 18-year, $25,000 house mortgage. It was not, however, a cause for rejoicing. In recent years the O'Callaghans' neighborhood, a former Irish Catholic enclave on Chicago's South Side, has been in a state of flux due to the incursion of black homeowners. Rather than pull up stakes, the O'Callaghans chose to stay on, and are now one of the last white families on their side of the street. For Norine O'Callaghan, a plumpish, red-haired housewife of 46, the influx...
...began to come home to us, the studios and their dream became superfluous. The movies did away with the illusion that life was somehow "real", solid, its events explainable, united by some coherent logic. Whatever their story, the technique of the movies has given us the full picture: fragmentation, flux, appearances changing twenty-four times a second. Movies (ironically the product of those self-deceived studios) tell the truth: they are the show-and-tell of absurdity, the perfect expression of the flickering, shifting surface of our lives. They tell us that life and the dream...