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...ever occur to you that twenty-live years from now you might be pushing like hell to get your daughters into Harvard (especially if, heaven forbid, you have no sons)? And what of alunal contributions? Doesn't it seem (now "Cliffies," it's no fair for you to answer this one, just because you're four times smarter and your voices are who-knows-how-many-times louder) that there is some correlation between education, jobs, and alumni (alumaes) contributions...
...when they go to the polls tomorrow. There on the ballot in front of them will be not one but two of this Irish neighborhood's favorite political figures, and for some strange reason, they seem to be running against each other One of them is running as. God forbid an Independent instead of as a good Democrat like he always used to What is going...
Washington state is offering voters the choice of picking one of two separate shoreline management proposals or of rejecting both. Each of the measures would protect coastal areas and wetlands and forbid oil drilling in Puget Sound, but one has stricter provisions and turns greater responsibility over to the state. The weaker measure is already law, but it will cease to be effective if it is not approved by the voters. Floridians will have to decide whether to authorize a $200 million bond issue to purchase lands that the state has decreed to be "environmentally endangered," and another $40 million...
Coop by-laws forbid actions which reduce the voting power of members without their approval in a referendum...
Pullman soon grew desperate. He discovered that the county's air-quality laws forbid burning tires and that the "carcasses," as they are called, were much too old to give away to any tire-recapping firm. It occurred to him to pay the $300 fine and turn the tires over to the county. But the local judge has suspended the fine because the county does not know what to do with the tires either. "Everything I've looked into is illegal or expensive," sums up Pullman...