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...days, you would have had to kiss Law Review good-bye Election to the prestigious student-oriented journal was based entirely on first-year grade point averages. That practice ended in 1969, when the review began to select half of its members on the basis of a written competition in the tall of students' second-year...
...third-person narrative of Marge Hogan, farm daughter whose two older brothers are killed in World War II. She spends her working hours in a sea of white feathers and turkey droppings, and her free time at the Cove Café, where a desperate young woman might select the best from a bad lot of rude and scruffy locals...
...search for a site is proceeding. In 1982 Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which charged the Department of Energy with setting up not one but two nuclear waste dumps. DOE must recommend three sites to the President by the beginning of 1985, and by law he must select one of those by early 1987. Government geologists have narrowed their choices to nine locations in six states: Washington, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Waste-producing nuclear power companies, which pay a levy of 1 mill per kilowatt-hour of generated electricity, contribute some $40 million a month...
Finally, Mondale must do more than listen to the demands of the much touted gender and minority gaps; he must select either a Black or a female running-mate. Only by paying attention to these demands will Mondale rally a populist coalition. If he succeeds, it will be an alliance with history and established legitimacy much stronger than any of the religious and hard-right minorities that elected the present president in the apathetic year...
Cabot said he expects that the committee will select a "reasonably full-time treasurer." a successful investor or businessman over 55 years of age, who would live near Cambridge...