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Moving from the extemporaneous to his prepared text, Bailyn marched with flourish through his theory of the roots and growth of the Revolution. He pointed out the absence of revolutionary intent at the outset of the movement for constitutional and legal reform in the colonies, and stressed that "it was not even a bourgeois revolution." It grew out of no social challenge and presented no assault on established values, he said...
Again it was a Crimson lapse at the start of the second half that put the game out of reach. Earnie Seibert sandwiched a basket and a free throw around potential All-American Chris Sease's 20-foot jumper to lead a 7-1 spurt at the outset of the half, and give the Orangemen a 44-30 lead and a comfortable cushion to coast...
...public already knows. It's hard to believe that someone so close to the president's counsel could know so little. The cause, perhaps, is that she thinks of herself as hardly a person in her own right, and Dean seems to follow suit. As she says at the outset...
Wary Eye. From the outset, the Securities and Exchange Commission has kept a wary eye on the C.B.O.E. and its sister markets. Options trading could become too attractive, the agency feared, draining money away from the stocks underlying the options. But two studies carried out for the C.B.O.E. by Robert R. Nathan Associates of Washington, D.C., established that market activity in the Big Board stocks represented by C.B.O.E. contracts has not fallen off. So the SEC has approved C.B.O.E. requests to increase its listings, and the C.B.O.E. is now asking the SEC to approve trading in put options. The timetable...
...outset of the campaign, both candidates agreed that the principal election issue would be White's eight-year record as mayor. Timilty attacked allegedly corrupt fund-raising among city employees and criticized White's preference for appointing old-style politicians to office. He also pointed out that the city's tax rate rose by about $80 during White's two terms as mayor...