Word: list
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michigan Board of Regents has accumulated a list of 250 to 300 possible candidates for the position. Shapiro aide Robin Jacoby told The Daily last Friday that "it was unlikely the search would move quickly enough for someone to be selected and ready to assume office January first." Corruption Rocks Radio Station...
Until recently, I was on the waiting list for the GSAS dorms. I knew that first year students got priority over second year students. Yet, when talking with various graduate students, I got the impression that generally second year students who want to be in the dorms would be able, in practice, to get them although they were not guaranteed them in theory. Even after I found out that my draw in the housing lottery was bad, various graduate students, including my residential advisor last year, said that I probably would be able to get in the dorms. When...
...jalopies or do typing on the side; others simply try to resell the goods they manage to procure. The rampant finagling is only encouraged by a bureaucracy with so many hands that none is likely to know what the others are doing: in a Havana telephone directory, the list of ministries takes up 77 pages...
...Reagan's list of loonies included Iran, Libya, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua. In fact, this is a list of small states that have tormented the U.S., delivering pinpricks that America has found impossible either to tolerate or prevent. Admitting this, however, is difficult. Easier to dismiss it all as the work of crazy states. Reagan was certainly right that these countries are "united by their fanatical hatred of the United States." But that in itself is not proof of derangement. Hatred is a common, often useful, phenomenon in international relations. And fanaticism is a measure of passion, not irrationality...
...more direct in responding to the growing criticism about air safety and airport delays. "That's just not fair," she protests after calmly reciting a list of recent measures. Always poised, she is at her most confident defending her department's record. The Harvard-trained lawyer methodically prepares her material and is deft at marshaling facts. But she can be wounded by a stray remark. When told that a Democratic political consultant had joked, "At least no one can say she quit while she was ahead," Dole grew silent, wide-eyed and quietly hurt. "She takes her job very seriously...