Word: leached
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Iowa Congressman Jim Leach sees possible deadlock in the House and weird maneuvering in the Senate. "The chemistry cannot be understood in advance," he warns. Arkansas Senator David Pryor fears a "constitutional crisis" in which a discredited Congress would be seen as usurping the voters' will. That happened after the 1824 election, when the House chose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson in a four-way contest. As recently as 1968, when George Wallace ran as an independent, the country had a close call. Had Wallace won about 60,000 more votes in three states, neither Richard Nixon nor Hubert...
...Captain Mike Shyjan were snubbed by the selection committee Monday, failing to secure one of the eight seedings. Because of that, Harvard's top doubles tandem, once ranked as high as second in the nation, is now in a bracket with the most formidable team in collegiate tennis: Jon Leach and Brain MacPhie...
Price's work has nothing to do with such discursive archness. And it has ^ even less to do with the Bernard Leach tradition of quiet good taste and honesty in materials that grew out of Chinese and Japanese ceramics. As Edward Lebow points out in his engaging catalog introduction to this show, Price, from his student days in Peter Voulkos' West Coast classes, "devoted much of his studio effort to clearing his throat and going ptooey on 'creative craft' and 'good design...
...Harvard duo, which has not played in competition for a number of months due to a Zimmerman injury, dropped to the top-seeded USC pair of McPhee and Jonathan Leach in the semifinals...
...manager. Two decades ago, British regulators investigating his 1969 attempt to sell Pergamon Press concluded in a report that the murky relationships among Maxwell's privately held businesses made him specifically unfit "to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company." A principal author of that report, Sir Ronald Leach, now 84, said last week, "If anybody had taken the time and trouble to read and take notice of our report, they would have seen that what has been happening recently was happening 20 years ago." The final collapse of his empire suggests that Maxwell was less a media mogul...