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This means that while the deans and thepresident will solicit gifts for the wholeUniversity, the graduate schools' rank-and-filefundraising personnel--the class officers, theexperienced development officials--will remaindedicated solely to their own school's financialsecurity...
...Democrat capitalized on the ferment in this year's politics. All three candidates talked about change, Perot in the most vivid terms. Bush tried to warn voters that Clinton's new direction would be too radical and costly. Clinton clearly won that argument by a significant margin. Asked to rank the importance of nine "candidate qualities," change drew the highest response (38%). Clinton won nearly two-thirds of that group, while Bush came in third...
...biosphere, programs whose worth neither party would dare contest. But it was the overarching scheme, and dream, that fell into disfavor. Reform was no longer experienced as something performed for the people but as something performed on the people. In an age of belated racial redress, white America -- the rank and file, the lower-middle class -- felt itself under siege. With jolting suddenness, the old alliance fell apart. Liberalism was coded as the elevation of black grievances over white ones, the welfare of layabouts over that of workers...
...were the product of some modern Los Alamos. Bush visited the factory for a rally that resembled his trips to flag factories in the 1988 campaign. The Allies were invoked as they had been against the Axis. When victory came in Kuwait, Bush presumed that V-K day would rank with V-E day and V-J day, that America's international eminence was restored as at the peak of the nation's power...
...sovereignty they lost in the past 500 years. They have negotiated, sued, launched international campaigns, occupied land and, in a few cases, taken up arms to press their cause, marking in their own way the quincentennial of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World -- an event Native Americans rank as the greatest single disaster in their history...