Word: hat
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...happens, of course, lawsuits are old hat for the American Indian. Most common are contested land titles-the phrasing itself has the ring of Indian argot: "clouded title." Then there are the occasional contested mineral rights. And now there are the very popular-here the parch in everybody's throat-contested water rights. In a region where you have to drill down practically to the Yangtze River to bring in a well, at a cost of $5 or $6 a foot, water is wealth. You rarely find surface water without finding Indians who found it first. This arrangement begets...
...there is another tour, too extensive to be just a farewell tour, where the golfers are recognizable at a distance by a loop in a swing, a Hit in a walk, a Panama hat. They are misnamed "seniors." As the minimum age is 50, not 65, "champions" would be better. From a two-tournament, $250,000 reunion in 1980, a 27-stop, $5.8 million phenomenon has come about. For men who once shared cars and pulled trailers, rich memories are suddenly negotiable. Don January, 54, a slim Texan whose long lines are all connected at right angles, remembers when, "after...
...freshmen "not taking prerequisites to potential concentrations, wasting electives, and taking too few or too many Core courses," and blames the problem in part on the assertion that "freshman proctors are chosen more for their social skills than for their familiarity with the Harvard academic system." Further, it complains 'hat "[m]any proctors did not graduate from Harvard-Radcliffe, and most are not familiar with the various concentrations...
...subject of president...Bok says there is nothing to the rumors heard around campus recently that he may throw his hat into the ring and run for the Senate. He does admit he has had some friendly proddings to run for the seat being vacated by Paul E. Tsongas--but nothing really serious. The people suggesting that he run "don't know too much about politics," the prexy laughs...
...selection process, according to wagner basketball Coach Neil Kennett, another committee member, is "not easy--it's not like you pull 32 names out of a hat...