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Often school board members have narrow moralistic or theological agendas. In California, so-called "stealth candidates" from the religious right a tempted to snag positions on community school boards, meeting with considerable success. One of their aims: to change the science curriculum by either eliminating evolutionary theory or including creationism...
...success story for U.S. chipmakers, which in the past two years have regained most of the ground lost to their Japanese rivals during the 1980s. American companies have also scored significant success in Japan. But talks between Tokyo and Washington on continued access to Japanese markets have hit a snag...
...TOOK ROUGHLY 36 HOURS FOR THE CLINTON ADministration to hit a snag. Zoe Baird had left a tough Senate confirmation hearing at 9:30 p.m. Thursday insisting she would not withdraw her name as Attorney General-designate. By midnight she had changed her mind: criticisms of her admittedly illegal hiring of undocumented Peruvians as servants had grown quite heated, and presidential support had turned decidedly lukewarm. In an exchange of letters released by the White House at 1:22 a.m. Friday, Bill Clinton accepted her pullout "with sadness." Feminist groups immediately began pressing Clinton to name another woman...
...with the mike during the Circle of Friends finale who almost overshadowed the nominee every time he thrust his fist upward with the show-biz earnestness of a crooner. Mostly as a lark, the journalists formed a company called Snarling Jackass Productions, each putting up $250, to try to snag Roger a record contract. They persuaded him to cut a demonstration tape in Nashville, but after the election Roger sniffed the chance at a better deal and dropped them. Last month he signed a $200,000 contract with Time Warner's Atlantic Records to record his first album...
...committees who can't snag us singers...