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...Republicans are lurching toward not only a presidential showdown, but a real dilemma about the second slot. With 1,000 or more Reagan delegates on the floor, the convention is sure to have a conservative set of mind. The President cannot afford to antagonize Reagan, and yet Ford's advisers say he does not want the Californian on the ticket. He considers Reagan too far to the right to provide the proper ideological balance. But if Ford is nominated by only a skimpy margin, he faces two unappealing options: he can buck the Reagan delegates and dare to pick...
...going to help this society look at how the pie is divided, not how to get a bigger slice for themselves. Life is more than a buck, and I felt that all these people with a golden opportunity to do something for others were just slipping into a slot where it was easy for them to make it; they are cheating themselves, allowing themselves to be less than they could be, fitting the mold when they're the ones who don't have...
While another chapter is being added to the Stones-Embry rivalry, senior McCulloh hopes he can fulfill a "dark-horse role." McCulloh, who has jumped in the shadows of Embree this season, also qualified for an Olympic trial slot...
...unlikely, under a quota system, that positions will go to the most qualified people available. At the time a position opens up it is unlikely that the most qualified applicant will by chance be a member of the race or minority group that is needed to fill the quota slot open at that time. In this case the most qualified applicant will lose his opportunity because of racist considerations. If the most qualified applicant does happen to belong to the right minority group, then the quotas are irrelevant because the person will be chosen anyway, if the basis for selection...
...straight news after Mary Hartman, all you would hear is the sound of sets clicking off." Instead, MN2 is clicking with an audience that has doubled since the program went on the air three months ago. It now tops Los Angeles' five other independent stations in its time slot and is challenging ABC and the CBS late movie...