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Muscatine said she estimated the tennis team would opt for "Harvard." She said that "to a lot of people 'Radcliffe athletics' is a ha-ha, a question mark. We want to be taken seriously...
...state fosters the growth of groups small enough to accomodate (imagine the costs if the government actually wanted to help out all workers) and small enough to feel the benefits of a concession. Glazer and Moynihan neglect to mention the relative ease with which a state can co-opt and control an oppressed and potentially troublesome group once they are convinced they must fight for their own sliver of the pie rather than join ranks with other hungry people...
...Tupelo, Miss, disk jockey and Davis protege, whom Sir John last October promoted from deputy chief to chief executive. Dowson rapidly concluded he would never have real authority as long as Sir John was around. Finding himself unable to challenge Davis in a boardroom battle, he apparently decided to opt for a lucrative early retirement by taking on Sir John in a bedroom farce...
...seems to officials at Harvard that when students are presented with the choices side by side, they will usually opt for the master's in business administration, usually worth about $22,000 to the bearer, instead of the less prestigious master's in public administration...
That's why to Harvard officials the implications of the power plant are so great. They see the plant as an impetus for other private companies to band together, as Harvard and the medical institutions in the area did, shuck the local power company, and opt for their own plant with more economical rates...