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Admittedly, the whole thing is an expensive, frivolous escape to the elements. But if you haven't had your quota of extravagance or you can go with a cost-saving group, it is worth it to try winter camping once. At least by buying the more practicle items mentioned here, you'll be prepared to fend off any meterological disturbances Boston might send your...
...sweeping reforms are now generally accepted by the party and appear in the proposed charter. In some states, party officials used to select convention delegates; now all party members can take part in the process. But one provision of the guidelines turned out to be explosively controversial: a quota system for minority groups, youth and women...
...chair in 1945, Buckley suspects -he could not, utter anything to the U.N. Assembly in New York that had not been dictated by Washington. With his oratory stilled, but not his newspaper column or the daily jottings which form this witty journal, Buckley soldiered on. He handled his quota of agenda items: Status of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Measures to Be Taken Against Ideologies and Practices Based on Terror or on Incitement to Racial Discrimination or Any Other Form of Group Hatred; Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights...
...only sizable support for maintaining the current 2.5-to-1 sex quota came from the men at the River Houses; only a few women anywhere would support the ratio...
Thus it appears that while students ideally favor a 1-to-1 male female ratio at the college, they are not willing to go along with a fixed admissions quota to achieve that goal...