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...could have written about learning to write papers the night before they're due or about recounting the trauma of an aunt's funeral--for the third or fourth time--the night before a midterm. I could even have written about doing some good work and being happy with it. All these things are part of just about everyone's undergraduate career here, and all of them do matter...
Alfonsin's intentions were as much political as economic. His government was shaken last month by the resounding defeat of his Radical Civic Union Party in midterm elections. The vote, which was viewed as a referendum on the administration's handling of the economy, left Alfonsin without a majority in Congress. After consultations with the opposition Peronist party, Alfonsin promised a 75% increase in the minimum wage, to $87 a month, even as he froze all other wages...
...cheating accusations were controversial on the Yale campus because Meschede had allowed students to work together on all problem sets and even on a take-home midterm exam, said Bruce Spiza, a former government representative who has taken an active role in the cheating case...
...demonstrations had been carefully stage-managed, they reinforced Reagan's recovery from the doldrums inflicted by a triple whammy last November: the uproar over his sale of U.S. arms to terrorist Iran, his failure to keep the Senate in Republican hands, and his almost automatic reduction, once the final midterm elections of his presidency were behind him, to lame-duck status...
...lead the nation -- in short, that they deserved to take over the White House after 1988. They made a bravura start, quickly passing a clean-water bill over the President's veto and approving the $88 billion highway bill over another Reagan veto. The Republicans, shell-shocked by the midterm election loss and defensive over the Iran-contra affair, were reduced to the role of helpless spectators...