Word: keyed
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Nonetheless, coaches are continually advising admissions officials. They call or talk to officers in person, trying to persuade the Admissions Office that key athletes are also qualified applicants...
...Republican panelists said that they would not let party policy determine their stance on women’s' issues. The key women’s' issues that the panelists are pushing are comparable worth legislation, government support for day care, and the Equal Rights Amendment...
...paperwork and unrelated duties, and with the backing of their principals, these counselors are able to focus students' attention early. Katahdin High School is in the depressed rural town of Sherman Station in northeastern Maine. The one counselor for the school's 250 students, Wayne Miller, is a key member of the faculty. He starts seeing freshmen "right off the bat" to get them thinking about careers, then eventually about how college might expand their opportunities. "Our kids are extraordinarily modest," says Miller, but by the end of junior year he has guided and goaded most into deciding whether...
...happened before in big-time sport: a team goes into a rough schedule only to learn that a clutch of key players has been suspended for allegedly taking bribes. But rarely has any ball club been hit as hard as Philadelphia's judicial team was this month. Faced by a truly daunting schedule of cases, it saw 15 of its 105 judges temporarily cleaned off the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as a result of a federal probe into cash gifts by a local union. The cut may represent the largest number of trial-court judges ever suspended...
...rift between the State Department and the CIA. State, convinced that the contras need civilian leadership to develop political and diplomatic support, forced Calero to accept the UNO power-sharing arrangement. The CIA, however, has indulged Calero's backhanded treatment of the UNO. "The CIA thinks the key to everything is the battlefield," says a State Department official. "In their view, if the contras start winning, the political and diplomatic support will follow." Contra supporters may wince at Calero's authoritarian tactics but they are unlikely to abandon him. Says a State Department representative: "Calero commands a lot of loyalty...