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...race winners were novice and varsity rowers Kathe Ashenbrenner, Amy Pare, Serena Eddy, Mary McCagg, Karen Weltchek, Joanna Bench, Sarah Touborg, Jennifer Grossman, and Kenni Feinberg...
...College and graduate school deans also recommended students that helped in the 350th anniversary preparations, according to von Stade. She said she will pare down the approximately 100 names given to her to 50, of which about 30 will beundergraduates...
Experts question, however, whether bargain-conscious consumers will flock to an improved IBM PC. They feel that Big Blue may have to pare prices even further before many buyers will forsake the inexpensive IBM look-alikes. Boot up and watch the results on the screen of your choice...
...amoral revolving-door world of Washington, it has become just as respectable to lobby as to be lobbied. Ronald Reagan may have come to Washington to pare down the size of the Federal Government, but many of his former top aides have quit to profit off Big Government as influence peddlers. None has been more successful more swiftly than Reagan's former deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver, who may multiply his White House income sixfold in his first year out of government by offering the nebulous blend of access, influence and advice that has become so valued in Washington...
...idea has enjoyed an unusual bipartisan harmony: in statehouses around the country, Democrats and Republicans have joined forces to support legislation that combines the job programs traditionally favored by liberals with efforts to pare the welfare rolls advocated by conservatives. Jo Anne Ross, a Reagan appointee at the Social Security Administration, describes workfare as the "top priority of the Department of Health and Human Services." Says Joseph Califano, Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Carter Administration: "If the kids are in school, then the mother can be working. Nearly everyone accepts that concept...