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Litwin adds, however, that some of the people she has met in the course of knocking on doors collecting signatures have been unreceptive because of a knee-jerk fear of drugs. The media contributes further to their missconceptions, she adds. "We definitely run into a lot of prejudice," Litwin says. "We get absolutely no coverage at all, because we're not respected as an organization...
Number-two singles player Melissa McNabb is sidelined with an inflammation of the knee cap and may be out as long as two months...
Columbia's strongest position may be goalkeeper. After sitting out the 1989 season with a knee injury, 6'4" senior netminder Sal Rosamilia returned last season to garner All-Ivy, All-Region and All-America honors. This season, Rosamilia has yielded just one goal, to Davidson College, while recording 18 saves...
While regulators admitted that new rules may ultimately be needed, they argued strenuously against any knee-jerk changes. The Treasury Department, anxious to regain its authority over a market it relies on to raise capital, announced that it was reopening its investigation to see if Salomon and one of its clients, Mercury Asset Management, worked together to cover up a bogus bid last February. Treasury's renewed interest may have been prompted in part by a Justice Department announcement that it was widening its probe of unauthorized bidding practices in search of violators in other Wall Street firms...
Bush's advisers probably figured a sudden pick would catch the liberal opposition groups off guard in the peak vacation month of August. Unfortunately, it seems they were right. The NAACP, the AFL-CIO and a coalition of civil rights groups all rejected Thomas on the same, knee-jerk grounds--he was too conservative...