Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time is right in Switzerland for a woman to join the Federal Council, but not Uchtenhagen. She was the victim not of male resistance but of her party's politics and her chilly personality. The silent majority of Swiss women and men are patient and will wait for another woman...
...writer/lyricists Calnek and Alison Taylor have infused some much-needed variety into these overwrought proceedings. For one thing, they've varied their targets of satire a little. There is not, for a wonder, a single and compulsive joke, even after Missionary Position and Witch Wayzup join forces. (You might still think twice about inviting your parents, though.) A certain eclecticism is apparent: Not only do the maidens pray "Boola boola, Eli Yale," but Wayzup laments, "Hath not a witch eyes...
...dancers that had earlier collected pledges finished the marathon "hot, sweaty, tired, but enthusiastic," logistics chairman Robert A. Schlesinger '84 said yesterday-spurred on in the final hours by an additional 200 students who each paid two dollars to join the dancing...
...Mondale planners are eager for a quick knockout. Says Fund Raiser Timothy Finchem: "Our concern is how soon we can put this thing away. It means a helluva lot in defeating Reagan." But not every Democrat is likely to simply bow out and join the Fritz blitz...
...larger issue of how to stimulate gifted minds. Opposition to programs like CTY is not the same as opposition to programs geared at academically students or standardized testing in general. Opponents worried about inappropriate academic acceleration that inevitably results when pushy parents, precocious children, and higher learning institutions join forces. Fortunately, with the mushrooming of advanced placement programs nationwide and increasing research on how to deal with gifted youngsters, the myth of the neglected gifted student is more fiction that fact. And though public education, particularly in inner city schools, has fallen victim to President Reagan's band-aid educational...