Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have sought access to the committee. Seidman, who is a sociology doctoral candidate researching a dissertation on South Africa, said she hoped that either she or Thomas would have the opportunity to make a presentation to the joint committee. Seidman said if they were not invited, the panel should hear from South African exiles. "It's upsetting to me that there's no one on the committee who knows anything about South Africa or about the region. They're going to have to learn a lot of basic things...
John says that securing a teaching position fora given semester requires sending letters andresumes to departments and faculty, but if agraduate student stays alert, he can find a spot."If one asks around, one can usually hear ofopenings" for teaching fellows, he says...
...Dylan Thomas once wrote in A Child's Christmas in Wales, "The bells that the children hear are inside them...
...Claus von Bulow, to star Klaus Maria Brandauer. You'll pay dearly for a Perrier at Cannes's Hotel Majestic bar, then more dearly still if you don't carry your wallet in a chastity belt. A plague of burglaries and purse snatchings stoked delicious horror stories. Did you hear? Patricia Hearst almost had her Rolex swiped right off her wrist...
Such ineptness has been costly. "In this state," says one adviser, "Bush has been plummeting, and I'm not just talking about the polls. You can hear it among rank-and-file Republicans." To reverse the slide, the Bush team will rely more heavily on the political organization of Governor George Deukmejian. The "real Duke," as Republicans call their sober, taciturn Governor to distinguish him from Dukakis, is still mentioned as a possible running mate for Bush. But there is one major drawback to that scenario: if elected, Deukmejian would have to hand over the nation's largest statehouse...