Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patronage. But the fervent campaign against Bird points up a conundrum. While it is sensible to be able to recall judges for corruption or incompetence, is it desirable for them to have to worry about voters when they make their legal judgments? Courts were never intended to reflect the popular will in the manner of legislatures. In judicial elections, says Berkeley Law Professor Franklin Zimring, "you walk the tightrope between democratic accountability and popular passion. Everybody agrees that accountability is fine and passion stinks, but how do you tell the difference...
...operator, Norm Chwat, an officer with the American Red Cross Radio Club, said there was an unconfirmed report that a tourist hotel on Jamaica's popular north coast had been wrecked by the hurricane...
Lamont, which opened for the semester on Monday, has 12 public terminals, and Jon Lanham '70, the library's associate director, says he has "absolutely no idea" how many people will show up to use them. He adds the Lamont may become more popular as a reference library because of the terminals' convenient location on the library's main floor...
Those expectations can be especially burdensome when it comes time to choose a course of study. The most popular major, not surprisingly in these practical times, is business. According to UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, 26% of college freshmen last year declared a business major, with engineering a distant second at 9.4%. Sophomore Mark Rodgers, at the University of Michigan, believed at one point that his parents might cut him off financially if he majored in English. "My parents were pressuring me to be an economics major," he says. "The idea is to have marketable skills when...
...central terminal to outlying gates by a rubber-tired subway that travels at 26 m.p.h. The airport owes its roominess to a five-year building program, completed in 1973, in which two giant, remote terminals were constructed to accommodate jumbo jets. As a result, Sea-Tac has become a popular connection point for travelers flying to Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Seattle-Tacoma's record for on-time departures, currently 87%, falls short of the performance of such fair-weather airports as Dallas-Fort Worth and Phoenix, which often top 90%. But Sea-Tac is consistently above the national average...