Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONGRATULATIONS, student protesters of the proposed partial randomization of the freshman house lottery. Last week's decision by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to reverse his February 1 endorsement of the masters' plan, which would have reserved a quarter of eight houses for random assignment, is a credit to coordinated student expression...
...have to give a lot of credit to Tod Cameron," Peckham said. "We called him at a quarter to midnight on Tuesday night and told him to get his butt down to the gym and lose 15 Ibs. so he could wrestle at 126. His efforts saved the team five penalty points...
...prep school the youngster was the model over-achieving crown prince. He excelled both in the classroom and on the playing field. While trying to secure a starter's place on the football team, he played one quarter with a fractured arm. Eventually he became the team's captain and won letters in three other sports. But although he grew up affluent, Darman also felt the influence of his mother Eleanor, a liberal involved in medical social service. Later Darman mused that he "bumbled" into government work as a means of bridging his father's and mother's impulses...
This prospect is not so dismal as it sounds. If protected well, the remaining quarter-million elephants would be a large enough population to thrive and multiply again. In fact, David Western, director of WCI, asserts that if allowed to grow old and die naturally, the elephants in these herds could probably supply enough tusks to support an ivory market larger than today's illegal business...
...piggy bank." But Wall staunchly defends his deals as the lesser of evils. "I much prefer to be damned for having done something than to be damned for doing nothing," he says. In fact, the cleanup is showing some results. The thrift industry's 1988 third-quarter loss of $1.6 billion was down from $3.9 billion in each of the previous two quarters...