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...History Department vote follows a recommendation made last week by current panel members that the group stop sending representatives to the CGE, a student-faculty advisory body. At that meeting, Agnew said he felt the CGE was "a cosmetic operation designed to co-opt graduate student protest...
Nonetheless, Congress is likely to approve some degree of public financing. The Senate bill permits a candidate to opt for completely public financing of a congressional or presidential general-election campaign or for a mix of public and private funding; the bill also calls for matching public and private funds in primaries. The House bill, which makes public financing mandatory for presidential elections but prohibits it entirely for congressional races, is languishing in Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays' Administration Committee. A bill submitted by Nixon limits individual giving and tightens disclosure but opposes any public financing on the grounds that...
...problems, and outline the steps that must be taken if life is to be preserved. They also try to provide an honest evaluation of the kind of life their efforts may succeed in preserving. Despite the shock and disappointment of having a deformed child, most parents automatically opt for life and urge doctors to do whatever they can to maintain it. This may change with the more open debate on whether allowing a baby to die is preferable to dooming it to an inhumanly handicapped existence...
...onlooker rapidly to Cloherty's everyday battle jargon. Quiet, qualmless talk of a decision to print Watergate grand-jury transcripts in the column, even when "we knew it [news of the cover-up] would come out sooner or later," or of the staff's standard operating procedure to opt against self-censorship "in 99 out of 100 cases" makes the onlooker wonder whether the Anderson Superman world consists of anything other than faster-than-sound scoops and ground rules laid...
...there was anything one can point to as having had a decisive effect on the outcome, I opt for the diving...