Word: stem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the criticism leveled at the assembly may stem from a certain lack of focus in assembly activities. The projects undertaken this year ranged from poll-taking--a function many assembly members say helped to establish the assembly's credibility in the eyes of administrators--to social directing. Many of the assembly's activities over the year have been directed toward prying open the governing structure of the University. The assembly has sponsored open meetings with President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies...
...hope it isn't contagious/ What's her name?/ Is that her there?/ Christ, I think he's even combed his hair!" For this song about the amours of Chuck E., and for a fine new album full of similar vignettes of life on the main stem, you can thank Rickie Lee Jones, 24, who has never cut a record before but who has sung in hard-times joints "full of bikers, degenerates, drunken men and toothless women" as recently as last year. She bought her first good guitar three weeks...
Most of the charges stem from Talmadge's messy 1977 divorce from Betty, who forced disclosure of the Senator's financial records. Since then, Daniel Minchew, a former Talmadge aide, has told Ethics Committee investigators that he deposited $26,000 in unreported campaign gifts and almost $13,000 in excessive Senate expense reimbursements in an account kept in the Senator's name at the Riggs National Bank in Washington...
...plea; "Makes me feel like a girl again/ To run with the married men," the sisters sing, adding one final reflection on wronged wives: "I know these girls they don't like me/ but I am just like them/ pickin' a crazy apple off a stem/ Givin' it to the married men." The Roches' songs, which come out of a very particular and womanly conscience, are feminist after the fact. Says Terre, "I missed the whole new consciousness thing." Her sister Suzzy, 22, adds simply, "We're women who make our own music...
Only when Harvard coach Alex Nahigian began substituting liberally in the fifth inning was Yale able to stem the Harvard tide. An Eli with the improbable name of Ronnie "not so" Darling was the only Yale pitcher not tagged for a run during the afternoon, as he held Harvard scoreless for four innings before being relieved in the eighth...