Word: skips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around him there is a strong supporting cast: All-Ivy linebacker Skip Cummings and Kevin Young...
Under the provisions of the Kraus plan, individual departments and their committees on graduate school admissions rank students for admission on the basis of academic merit. In making decisions on admissions, the departments are permitted to skip over higher-ranked needy students and accept lower-ranked students who are not in need...
...fact is that the present system of closed meetings permits the Faculty, the administration and the student members to do what they please without your being able to hold them accountable. This allows some faculty members of the CHUL to skip meetings and do little or none of the work that must be done. Closed meetings also allow student members of the CHUL to do nothing if they choose and to argue for positions and vote however they please. Like most monopolies, the present system of closed student-faculty committees is inequitable, self-serving, and inefficient. Open meetings would...
...million. The largest parcel handed out yet by a record company, Wonder's contract is worth as much as the Elton John ($8 million) and Neil Diamond (about $5 million) deals combined. Motown's announcement is strategically timed. There were rumors that Stevie might skip, but he is loyal. He says, "If it were not for Motown, many of us just would not have had a shot at success. I'm staying because it is the only viable black-owned company in the record industry...
...Congress the American Greek community has worked mainly through Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and Congressmen John Brademas of Indiana, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and Benjamin Rosenthal of New York. Only Brademas and Sarbanes are of Greek extraction (there are only three other Greek Americans in Congress: Representatives Louis "Skip" Bafalis of Florida, Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Gus Yatron of Pennsylvania). None of them consider themselves part of a Greek lobby. "We prefer to think of ourselves as the rule-of-law lobby," says Brademas, whose 475,000 constituents include only about 450 Greek Americans. Explains Sarbanes: "We have...