Word: matter
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Susan Stokes '81, an election winner and one of the students who may contest the results, said yesterday she believes all preferential voting systems violate the assembly's constitution, no matter how the ballots are tabulated...
...imperialism, the legacy of colonial empires, the rise of new nations, the prospects of international organizations. Above all, he was an example of perfect harmony between life and work, character and deeds. He was a gentleman, with a mix of reserve and sensitivity, an utter lack of pretension, a matter-of-fact modesty, a curiosity about all ranges of experience, an attention to other people's thoughts and feelings, an absence of prejudices but not of standards, that made him an inspiration and a model for his students. And he was a kind of surrogate father for many foreign students...
Nothing has raised the question more forcefully than President Carter's embarrassing effort in his State of the Union speech to establish his Administration's slogan. Although his staff has had two years to mull over the matter, what they came up with was something called New Foundation. It foundered. Some people yawned; others were derisive. Mainly, everyone was magnificently uninspired. New Foundation just did not have the ring of the great slogans of yesteryear: New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier, Great Society. Still, the Carter dud was only a conspicuous example of the general anemia that...
Other people in P.G. County see the Johnson case as a simple matter of a black man killing two white policemen, a crime for which he must pay. The latter group includes mainly colleagues of the slain policemen and many white residents of P.G. County...
...soon as the library staff noticed the problem, they contacted the Board of Student Advisers, who in turn contacted the Disciplinary Committee, Patricia L. Wells, as member of the advisory board for the committee, said yesterday. "We didn't vote on the matter, but we decided that if someone was caught, it would be a matter for the board," she added...