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...explains, reading the 28 words he knows by heart. The move to the pocket is practiced but still a chore, and the audience notices. "I can't get stuff out of my pants pockets," Dole says later. "That's why I keep it in my shirt," along with a spare five- or 10-dollar bill...
...made up my mind if I do anything, it has to be something I can do in my spare time," he said, adding that the demands on Harvard professors to participate in the governance of the University are "just relentless...
Nelson was already a battle-line warrior before the march. Three years ago, he began tutoring students in his spare time at Tyler Elementary School in southeastern Washington, where he instructs sixth-graders on how to own and operate a business. "If capitalism is the great engine that moves this country, then business is the fuel," he says. "If I show them goals they thought they could never attain, then show them how to get there, then I will have done my small part to help them achieve a better life." But the march has convinced Nelson that he needs...
...Departments are certainly concerned in the case of prominent junior faculty to give those people the best possible opportunity for promotion.... They may counsel them to devote every spare instant to departmental duties like teaching," Lewis said. "That's part of the reason for making this calendar adjustment...
...plan as an unnecessary hatchet job designed to finance a $245 billion G.O.P. tax cut for the wealthy. The acrimony between the two parties grew more bitter still when the American Medical Association announced it was endorsing the G.O.P. plan. The apparent quid pro quo: Republicans agreed to spare doctors from fee reductions, exempt them from certain antitrust restrictions and cap large malpractice awards...