Word: list
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grouped by Classes. A member must vote for a minimum number of candidates in each class to fulfill certain quotas, otherwise the entire ballot is invalid. Thus each member is forced to take responsibility for candidates in entirely different fields, about whom one has no information except for a list of publication and honors contained in a booklet accompanying the ballot. However, I recognized one name under Class V, that of Samuel P. Huntington...
...Linda Ronstadt (he actually sneers when he mentions her name), Frank Sinatra ("too hip for me") and Ella Fitzgerald. "Unquestionably a beautiful voice," he says of Ella, "but I never got a sense she connected with the lyrics. She never churned my kishkes -- that's Yiddish for intestines." His list of favorites is just as idiosyncratic. It includes Minnelli, of course, but also Rosemary Clooney ("she does everything a singer should do"), Gogi Grant ("she has an emotional intensity and is much underrated") and Martha Raye ("her voice was like a flute"). Gogi Grant? Martha Raye? Clearly, we have here...
Those pronouncements sounded like little more than empty rhetoric until, under great pressure from both the black majority and the outside world, Botha in that same year grudgingly drew up a list of what he called reforms. Some were of considerable significance, though they consisted mainly of canceling a few of the more obnoxious harassments sanctioned by the 200-odd apartheid laws. The law excluding blacks from official labor unions was rescinded in 1979 (about l million are now members). The law forbidding interracial marriage went in 1985. The hated passbooks, which sharply restricted a black's right to travel...
However, the University's list is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all asbestos-ridden areas on campus, he said...
According to the list, six of the projects are currently "on-hold" for a variety of reasons, but Scott said that these projects will be completed within the next two or three years. One reason for the delay is the University's policy of holding off abestosclean-up projects in buildings slated forrenovation until the scheduled repair work begins,Scott said...