Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only two days after the Salvadoran election, Republican Senator Jesse Helms claimed that he had uncovered "a covert plan" under which CIA funds were directly funneled into the campaign of Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte. Said Helms: "The State Department and the CIA bought Mr. Duarte lock, stock and barrel." Yet the fact that the ultraconservative North Carolinian, who openly supported Duarte's rightist adversary Roberto d'Aubuisson, took the lead on the issue may have muted the impact of the revelation...
While the Flexner report was a tremendous help to American medical education, it is also responsible, in large measure, for the lock-step conformity of pre-medical and medical education. The Flexner report, although widely quoted, has apparently seldom been studied. Instead of heeding the concepts promulgated by Flexner. American medical education enshrined his example, like the fable of the magpie, and it remains today the catechism of medical education, the National Boards and forms the basis of liscensure in most jurisdictions, as pointed out in President Bok's recent Annual Report...
...told me why they call it a Sebastian Sandwich. Nobody bothered to let me know about the housing lottery, or when they decide to lock the gates to the Yard or how to cross the street in Harvard Square, or when you are supposed to start writing your exam--when they tell you to, or right when they hand you the blue book...
After this weekend's 9-0 shutouts of Cornell and Syracuse, the squad needs just one more victory to lock up at least a share of the Ivy League Crown, with two matches to go in the season...
...with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing on its hinges, it has been open so wide for so long that even if the leftists could close it again, they would only lock in Deng's changes. Says a Western diplomat in Peking: "If you gave Deng a 20% chance of succeeding in 1978, you would give him an 85% chance...