Word: populares
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Official rules state that all of the rafts must be constructed by the contestants and that no motors are allowed. A popular flotation strategy has been to use kegs or inner tubes, and for propulsion, past participants have used pieces of wood attached to dining hall trays as oars. Raft designs have included crude constructions of planks, an elaborate Viking raft, and last year's Eliot House entry--a preppy raft complete with putting green...
...Dukakis cringes from the Carter comparisons, recalling negative polls and hostages more than policy achievements. Bush is also attuned to past polls--after all, his model, Reagan, was one of the most popular presidents. But Dukakis would be wise to avoid a game he cannot and should not want to win. Rhetoric and dubious records are what he should be running against; a substantive record like Carter's is what he should be proposing...
...Iran-contra affair, our government used official secrecy to enable it to carry out activities which were illegal and contrary to popular will," Nields said. "When confronted, the officials responded as though the questioner had missed some very obvious point that they were engaged in covert operations...
...tehniques as material in 1010. A second, more drastic measure, would be to require that every honors Economics concentrator pass a Math 21a: "Intermediate Calculus" final, whether they have to take the course or not. Instead of trying to maximize the size of the department by making Economics a popular, and easy, concentration, the faculty should ensure that honors students are qualified, well-educated scholars in their field...
Among the U.S. assets being ogled by foreign interests these days, publishing companies have been popular buys. Reason: such enterprises, notoriously risky if started from scratch, can be bought at a relative bargain price because of the dollar's decline over the past three years. Last week Hachette, France's largest publishing house, helped itself to two generous slices of the U.S. market in just four days. First Hachette agreed to pay $448.6 million to purchase Connecticut-based Grolier, the publisher of the Encyclopedia Americana. Then the French firm paid $712 million for Diamandis Communications, the owner of a dozen...