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ALTHOUGH MELENDEZ'S 20 hour work week in Canaday will siphon off close to a third of the council's budget this year, he evidently is not adequate to the task of keeping a three-room office filled with typed documents. So the council employs a second office staffer, Tara Deal '87, a work-study student. Deal's job, Chairman Eisert says, is to make sure the council meets deadlines with the IRS, Holyoke Center, and banks. And he says she doesn't cost undergraduates any money...
...heroic measures they once passed effortlessly. After Philippine President Corazon Aquino made a stirring speech to Congress appealing for more American aid, the Senate comically tried and failed twice to come up with a $200 million honorarium. After first hunting fruitlessly through foreign aid accounts and then trying to siphon funds from a Central American appropriation, last week the Senators dug the money out of the foreign-operations kitty...
...reporters that he was Chief Justice of the U.S., not of just the Supreme Court, and more than any other chief he worked to improve the somewhat rickety administration of the federal courts. His great ambition, which he never realized, was to create a "super court" of appeals to siphon off some of the burgeoning case load of the Supreme Court...
...Economic Support Fund, a subsidiary of the U.S. Agency for International Development, admitted that Marcos may have pumped $1.75 million of that amount into the last election. Other AID officials denied there were any irregularities, although they said Marcos did make an unsuccessful attempt in late 1985 to siphon off foreign assistance...
...Southern Baptist, has been transmitting signals that he might join the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Reagan. Political pros are uncertain how big a factor he could be in the primaries, let alone the convention, but they are convinced that he could energize the Christian right and siphon votes from other candidates. True believers are tingling at the prospect. As ROBERTSON IN 1988 buttons blossomed, the amiable Virginian took the N.R.B. platform to denounce the evils of abortion, homosexuality and school violence, all to be overcome by a flood tide of moral regeneration. "We are going...