Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third 500 we were still up on them--they'd get a seat and we'd pull ahead," coxswain Katia Rorer said. "Then in the last 500 things got rougher for us, and they sprinted through us. Everyone was a little disappointed, but the oarlock was a serious problem...
According to observers, the Law School is composed roughly of CLS adherents, CLS opponents and undecided faculty in equal numbers. At times, each faction has had enough pull to bring the tenure process to a grinding halt, destroying the faculty's collegiality. Most recently, the case of Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton, who was denied tenure by the faculty and President Bok on review, has raised issues of gender and political discrimination that have turned academic disputes into personal ones...
...time Buckley founded the National Review in 1955, he had abandoned ambitions to be a political philosopher. The long scholarly pull did not suit his polemical talents and gregarious nature. His friend Literary Critic Hugh Kenner put the matter concisely when he said that Buckley "was simply moving too fast to think, by which I mean that thought had become reflex...
...Democratic muddle has been sorted out, if "brokered convention" and "Mario scenario" have become yesterday's buzz words, new questions arise: Can Dukakis pull together the quarrelsome factions of his party? Can he and Jackson live together constructively? Can he lure back the millions of disaffected Democrats who supported Ronald Reagan in 1984? Although for the moment at least Dukakis leads Bush in national surveys, his advantage is tenuous -- and so is the Democratic coalition...
...Democrats' disciplined, self- contained candidate surges halfway to the nomination and dims chances of a Jackson upset. But can the Duke pull together the party' s disparate elements? -- As President, Dukakis would be decisive and fast- moving on the domestic front. -- The candidate and his wife Kitty are a study in contrasts. -- Al Gore, we hardly knew ye. See NATION...