Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, there are still as many unanswered questions as there were seven weeks ago. As the crisis festers, a vacuum is developing within the Administration. A replacement may have to be found for Casey. Spokesman Larry Speakes and Cabinet Secretary Al Kingon are leaving. Domestic Policy Adviser Jack Svahn has departed. If Regan goes, so will most of his assistants. Staffers are wondering who will replace these men, but a more compelling question is, Who can help make those selections...
...modestly dressed. Observes Roger Sale, a professor of English at the University of Washington: "A girl is in a wood. Give her a brother, and one has Hansel and Gretel . . . send the girl to dwarfs, and one has Snow White. Make the girl a boy, and one might have Jack, either the one who climbs beanstalks or the one who kills giants." Make the wood the reaches of space, and they are Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, GoBots or Masters of the Universe...
Stanford Law School officials maintain that there was no racism involved. "The matter originally arose from widespread complaints about his teaching," says Jack A. Friedenthal, associate dean at Stanford Law School. "It's hard to believe that they were racially motivated...
Despite a unanimous vote by the Harvard rugby club to pursue varsity status, Harvard Athletic Director Jack Reardon has advised the club to discontinue its varsity bid until other Ivy league rugby teams improve their programs...
...this is not enough, Kingston countered. "Jack [Reardon] wants an open contract, and to deal completely on faith," the sixth-year volunteer coach said. "But we have to look to the future...