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...significant to note that the supposedly omnipotent Helms couldn't push any of his candidates through, notwithstanding the state of the economy, Consequently, the elections should be viewed as a partial repudiation of the campaign tactics of groups like the Congressional Club. Democratic polls accordingly credit some of the sizable pro-Democratic vote to a strong reaction against tough negative advertising, key to the Club's style...
Superior Court Justice James J. Nixon ruled in a partial summary decision that the Cambridge Rent Control Board could order Irene D. Polednak to acquire a special permit from the city before purchasing her rent controlled apartment and occupying it as a condominium...
...including such improbable targets as Pat Moynihan of New York and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. Political realities eventually shrank the list to five, but NCPAC still raised $10 million and spent $4.5 million in the 1982 elections. Yet last week, for all its thunder, the New Right could claim partial credit only for the defeat of a single, vulnerable incumbent, Democrat Howard Cannon of Nevada...
They did it unwittingly, of course. At the opening of the season, no one could have predicted that today's confrontation would make one of the two teams at least a partial holder of the 1982 Ivy title...
...APPENDIX" to Phyllis Keller's book on the Core Curriculum evokes a laugh--a laugh born of the shock of recognition. Sure enough, there in the unmistakable typeface and format of the Course Catalogue is "a partial listing of Core courses" (last year's). The Big Book's vapid generalizations and inimitable manner of description are here preserved for all posterity, from "Literature and Arts A-11--Theater and Drama" to "Foreign Cultures 32--Political Doctrines and Society." Bound into the volume with them is the account--as seen by Phyllis Keller, associate dean of the Faculty for academic planning...