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...University will peg its contributioncost to the lowest approved plan, and employeeswho want more coverage than that can buy up,"Rudenstine said...
...ethnicities, given its name. Perhaps a more reasonable alternative can be found. The MSA has other, admirable goals, such as the hiring of more minority faculty members, hopefully in all disciplines. And someone has to take Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 down a peg now and then. But E.S., though it has the ring of a good idea, could in reality be a quagmire that would only spawn more controversy...
Unfortunately, it was heard by tens of millions of people, many of whom were sick of her already and were looking for anything to knock her down a peg...
...followers will try to defeat them at the polls next year if they vote for NAFTA. That, says a White House official, is another reason why Clinton chose to take on Perot -- or have Gore do it -- in debate. If the White House can knock Perot down a peg, it will win the gratitude, and maybe the pro-NAFTA votes, of Republicans who would be afraid to tangle with Perot all alone...
...what the high desert of California's Owens Valley, near Bishop, is known for. Very hot, light air, cooking on the valley floor and over the canyons, rises at great speed in columnar thermal currents; and from upper altitudes, cold, heavy air sinks fast in compensation. You can "peg" your variometer here with no trouble at all -- i.e., rise faster than the 1,000 ft. a minute that the beeping rate-of-climb gauge will register. But great, eddying roils of turbulence called rotors wheel across the 14,000-ft. ridges of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, sometimes shearing...