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Hollings amendment to a stopgap money bill would retain $988 million in the measure to buy the first five of the 100 planned missiles. But it also bars any use of the money until Congress approves a basing plan with no restriction on when that might...

Author: By Garry Trudeau, | Title: Committee Approves MX But Basing Must Change | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

Until now, the only form of faculty evaluation by students has been "teacher ratings" published annually in book form by the student newspaper and private surveys which some faculty use and retain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Students Will Evaluate Candidates for Tenured Jobs | 12/14/1982 | See Source »

...Jews in the opposite direction, towards complete assimilation. Having left an ancestral but fear-ridden past for security in America, vast numbers of Jews now know that they can become indistinguishable from the rest of their adopted culture, and, seeing the rewards, most choose to do so rather than retain their distinguishing marks...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Paths to the Past | 11/24/1982 | See Source »

...decision that may retain as many as 1,000 Cambridge apartments under rent control, a Middlesex Superior Court judge last week overruled a lower court finding that threatened the city's strict regulations restricting condominium conversion...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Court Supports City Condo Code | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...dead man on the ballot, I felt obliged to make a serious campaign," he said. Since Wilson had died 24 hours past the deadline to change the ballot, Democratic officials had to support his posthumous candidacy with the hope of winning so they would have a chance to retain the seat in the subsequent special election. In fact, Wilson fared better than most pols last week: he was re-elected easily, with 66% of the vote. The loser, however, was philosophical about his loss. "I've heard of elections where dead people voted," Ware said wryly, "but this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Most Spectacular Comeback of the Campaign | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

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