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...jobs because I was a woman," Pauley said, adding, "My motto was 'Praise...
...snowcapped peak behind him, a male choir singing, and rain clouds swirling, stalk a buck and drop it with one shot. Then they're back in the bar listening to Chopin, his Teutonic supremacy affirmed. He relaxes with the guys, but he's never out of control. The scout motto of "Be Prepared" has become a compulsion, and he seems too ready. It smacks of adolescence...
...hard career choices filed into last week's ceremony, several graduate students stood outside. To most who attended, they handed a "Bio-Buck"--a facsimile of a dollar bill decorated by caricatures of three Harvard scientists known for their lucrative outside work. Surrounding the sketches was the bill's motto: "Hell, I'd clone my grandmother to make a buck...
...share these worries. But we do not endorse the solution recommended by the AAA, BSA and GSA. Our reasoning follows that of many civil rights activists, whose motto for much of the last century was drawn from the language of a Supreme Court case: "one-man, one-vote." We object to tampering with electoral democracy in order to aid one group or interest; we object to such tampering be it by whites in the Southern United States or New York City, or by minorities in something so insignificant as student government. When district lines were redrawn in the Mississippi Delta...
Give me your tired, your poor, your homebound masses yearning for a degree." So might read the motto of higher education in the 1980s. Telecourses have been broadcast before, but never on a national scale. This fall, in conjunction with the Public Broadcasting Service, 500 colleges will be offering up to nine courses for credit via 206 public television stations. They will reach thousands of students-full-time workers, housewives, handicapped adults or people who live as far as 400 miles from the college of their choice-who otherwise would not be able to "go" to college...