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...Republican Contract With America offered a panacea for the country's ills; and President Clinton, with his vaunted political instincts, adopted the most salient elements of the panacea. Now the Democrats are trying to further counter the Republicans with their plan, which they call Families First. Moreover, by declaring wars on poverty, drugs, three strikes and you are out slogans etc., by putting 100,000 more police officers on the street, the president as well as his adversaries are hoping to address America's social ills. The problem is that in the long run, as we have thus far witnessed...
Faculty members evaluate all of the departments' recommended candidates and then inspect transcripts which contain records of all grades, not only those in concentration courses. They also discuss such factors as grade point average cutoff, a salient issue since mean grades can sometimes vary from department to department...
Corporation members dismissed the possibility of a female president. When asked in the early fall of 1970 whether a woman would be president of Harvard, one Corporation member smiled and gave a "salient, plaintive look best interpreted as 'Now, come on, get serious,"' The Crimson reported at the time...
...most salient (and unfortunately difficult to solve) problems is that the orchestra is simply too loud. Although they suffer from intonation problems, the players are solid and and the sound is balanced within the ensemble; however, the group overpowers the vocalists in almost every musical number. Sadly, in a room as acoustically imperfect as the Leverett Old Library it is close to impossible for even a small pit to avoid drowning out unamplified singers...
Those men instilled in Brown what would become his most salient trait: his incandescent self-confidence. "What stuck with Ron was how great it was that they were there, and how he was going to be like them," recalled his former assistant, Melissa Moss. "He was missing the computer chip that said, 'Caution, you can't do this.'" The hotel also offered young Ron his first chance to sample the rewards of peddling influence. Until guests like Joe Louis got wind of the scheme and put a stop to it, he made a brief career of badgering famous guests...