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Unfortunately, the University does its best to undermine this type of communication. The threat implicit in the appeal for class gift contributions is that if seniors do not give, or choose instead to give to E4D, undergraduate extracurricular or educational opportunites will suffer. Warren states that "[w]hen the money's not there," programs such as "varsity athletics or professional dramatic productions" will be harmed. Warren assumes that the University would be willing to sacrifice the quality of undergraduate life should senior class donations decrease...
...Dukakis' campaign style sometimes leaves aides in the peculiar role of providing both the specificity and the passion that the candidate so assiduously avoids. Chris Edley, for example, talks animatedly about Dukakis' moving immediately after the election to forge a "vigorous consensus on a multi-year deficit plan." Implicit in this prediction is an awareness that far more overt sacrifice will required to douse the deficit than merely mobilizing an army of IRS agents to hunt down tax scofflaws. "There will be real action on the economic front," Edley says. "On the three fronts of the budget, economic development...
...wife. Audrey wonders whether Lydia, nee Di Salvo, the daughter of a prosperous private trash collector, will be able to live up to the lofty standards of manners and deportment that prevail in the Graves family. Still, the weather is sunny and warm enough to soothe implicit tensions. And everyone is looking forward to another marvelous breakfast prepared by the houseguest of the past week, Chuck Burgoyne...
Gore was careful not to mention the vice presidency; that would be seen as pandering. The promise of consultation on jobs was implicit. There was no need to dwell on it. What Gore discussed instead was their shared Southern heritage and what it had taught him about race, poverty and man's capacity to change. There was a passion in Gore's voice that a Northerner like Dukakis could not have equaled...
...hundreds of thousands of demonstrators jammed the square in front of Yerevan's opera house, chanting "Karabakh," singing patriotic songs and holding banners bearing such inscriptions as SELF-DETERMINATION IS NOT EXTREMISM. Police did not interfere with the protests, and Soviet army troops maintained a low profile, but the implicit threat of a crackdown mounted with each passing...