Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first motion the Faculty will vote on proposes each department set up mechanisms both for advising all concentrators on their individual course plans and for reviewing the academic progress of all students in the major...
...HCHP board of directors adopted these figures as targets in a motion passed two weeks ago, but they were hardly aiming high. Richard Cannon, HCHP director of development and planning, said the figures were more reasonable expectations than they were difficult goals. But the plan's directors are not to be blamed for aiming low. They want to avoid turning the program into a health care monolith. As Cannon put it, "We don't want to create a McDonald's for medical care." However, if the plan reaches its expected enrollment for 1982, and if no competing plan has emerged...
...Prime Minister Callaghan's Labor government on the way out? That seemed a real possibility after a bizarre session of Commons last week at which Labor whips ordered their members to abstain from voting on a Labor-proposed motion-which led to a resounding 293-to-0 defeat for the government. Following that odd display of parliamentary tactics, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher demanded a vote of no confidence, which will be taken at midweek. If the government loses, Callaghan will have no choice but to ask the Queen to dissolve the House and call for new elections within weeks...
...Didion book is free of subliminal aggression: among Charlotte's accomplishments is the ability to perform emergency tracheotomies. She can also catch chickens and snap their necks with one smooth motion. Warren is a monstrous lout and a failure whose "face had been coarsened by contempt," whose "mind had been coarsened by self-pity." Their daughter Marin ("good strong hair and an I.Q. of about 103") grows up to be a skyjacker and a fugitive Marxist. Her resemblance to Patty Hearst can hardly be coincidental. Charlotte's second husband is also a familiar type out of the recent...
...depressives ends in December 1976, he is as miserable as ever, working hard, jogging along the Charles and still mourning over Jenny. The lover of decent prose is equally miserable. Only Erich Segal is happy-$1.5 million richer for this minutia, soon to be made into a minor motion picture...