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...highest-ranking posts in the publication are the president, treasurer, and four other editorial positions. Three members of the incoming board are women, and two are minorities, one of whom is a Black woman, Crystal Nix. The Review's newly-elected treasurer, Caroline M. Brown '84, is the second woman ever to hold the post...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Law Review Chooses Masthead | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

...Review's staff comprises 40 second-year and 40 third-year students, among which there is a high number of Harvard College graduates. There are "about 22 or so" College alumni, said Nix...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Law Review Chooses Masthead | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

...system contains the cloned expertise of platoons of specialists who approve unusual credit requests for the company's estimated 20 million U.S. cardholders. For the first time, the computer will decide whether to okay the purchase of, say, a $5,000 Oriental rug by a usually prudent spender -- or nix the transaction on the suspicion that the cardholder is on a buying spree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...college decided to nix the proposed deal after a group of landowners challenged the city's right of eminent domain, which allows the local government to take land from private holders, without negotiation, in exchange for a fair market price. Private owners possess some of land upon which Emerson had planned to build the new campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

Dostart says that while he and his roommates wanted to go to Greece, fear of terrorism in an international airport with a bad reputation was a factor in their decision to nix a visit there. "We wouldn't fly into Athens," he says. They had thought about using some other means of transportation to visit Greece, but they have decided they don't have enough time to make the trip, Dostart says...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Travelling and Trembling Over Terrorism | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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