Word: majority
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...reforms" do much to alleviate the feeling of helplessness when faced with an ill-prepared teaching fellow. Or the confusion when first-years--who have to declare their concentration in the spring semester--realize they have spent precious time in watered-down Cores meant to "introduce students to the major approaches to knowledge" rather than more useful departmental offerings...
When Carter and Mondale lost the 1980 election to Reagan and Bush, Eleanor was far from the gloom in Washington. At the time she was a sophomore in St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.; a phys ed major who dreamed -- like so many girls her age -- of making it big in Hollywood. Unlike the other girls, however, her famous name helped take her there, and Eleanor Mondale made her TV debut in January 1981 on the ABC show "240-Robert." She played a bank teller, and spoke exactly six words: "Here's Miss Harper's file, Mr. Talmadge...
...This conferred a new status of moral dignity on his leadership," says an article on Time's 100 leaders and revolutionaries of the century. "His major response to the indignities of the prison was a creative denial of victimhood, expressed most remarkably by a system of self-education, which earned the prison the appellation of 'Island University...
Bondi, a First Team All-Ivy selection, provides one aerial threat, but Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said Columbia wide receiver Armond Dawkins could be another major threat...
...minister Keizo Obuchi couldn't come to Washington next week with an empty briefcase. That's why he cut a deal with his political opponents Friday over stalled banking reform legislation -- a deadlock that had exasperated Washington. "This appears to be an important step, but they still have a major chasm to cross," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. "At least now Obuchi has some news for President Clinton. It would have been terribly embarrassing for him to come to Washington with no plan to reform his country's banking sector, which many see as a crucial step to overcoming...