Word: keyed
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...another key vote, the council urged the College to retain the present system of assigning houses, which allows students a limited amount of choice through the use of a lottery. The masters have proposed that 25 percent of the spots in some houses be assigned randomly to improve residential diversity...
...intent to make zoning and developmentthe key issues, the most important issues, of the1989 council elections," Dowds said. Principally,he said the council should carry out the DefenseFund's proposal to make the maximum height for newconstruction five stories instead of the currentseven...
Though vehemently denied, the scenario is a likely one, since Cavazos agrees with most of Bush's views on education, which include support for a strong Education Department (Reagan wanted to abolish it) and an active role for the Federal Government. Regarded as a low-key consensus builder, the new Secretary is a stylistic counterpoint to his pugnacious predecessor...
...court, a key consideration will be the legal principle of stare decisis, the policy of standing by settled points of law. According to this doctrine, even if Roe v. Wade were seen by the Justices as a bad decision, revoking it after 15 years might be considered too politically and socially disruptive. However, a majority of the court, including Justice Kennedy, has already shown a willingness to re-examine well-established law. Last term the five conservative Justices stunned the legal community by voting to reconsider Runyon v. McCrary, an important 1976 civil rights decision. "This suggests a court where...
...cameras love Baryshnikov, but the key to this book's success is Fraser's total sympathy with this complex artist. Fraser helped Baryshnikov break away from a Soviet tour group in 1974, and he seems to have won his complete trust. Usually reticent, Baryshnikov speaks with stinging intimacy of his mother's suicide when he was twelve, broods about women (he loves American women but has difficulty living under the same roof with one) and gripes about the toils of fund raising. He also talks -- without the least defensiveness -- about one of his several goals: to be a giant-screen...