Word: straw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life." The ideological thrust so distressed a group of 61 practicing lawyers and law professors that they signed an advertisement urging Reagan's defeat be cause he was a threat to an "independent judiciary." Last week TIME completed a straw poll of the signers to see if they still believe as they did in 1980. Of those who were willing to record their opinion, the vast majority said they would sign the ad again, and most thought the Reagan choices were too "rigidly conservative." But only one-third thought that...
...origination fee doubles for graduate students, "it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back," said Patricia McWade, director of student assisstance in the Graduate School of Art and Sciences (GSAS...
Wilkerson's road to extraordinary trouble began with an ordinary childhood. The son of a pipefitter, he moved with no particular distinction through his education. He recalls, with irony: "In a high school science class we took a straw poll on the subject of capital punishment, I voted in favor of it." Wilkerson dropped out of Mesa College in Colorado after one year, married, divorced and knocked about in a couple of ill-fated business schemes. He then went to work for Houston Businessman Don Fantich, who local police suspected was an operator in the penumbra of the underworld...
...communicate with us about the problem beyond warnings not to tamper with the alarms. Furthermore, every official statement we have read has intimated that somehow we are to blame for the repeated alarms. Fire Protection Engineer David Breen's comment in The Crimson on November 16 was the last straw. He was quoted as suggesting that "the situation would resolve itself once workers left the building and students became 'sensitized' and were more careful about smoking and fireplace smoke." It is hard to attribute alarms between four and six a.m. to the workmen or to someone forgetting to open...
...were to take a straw poll on th best-known young American artist the winner would certainly be Julian Schnabel, 30. The 1981-82 art season drenched him in publicity: not accidentally, since his main patron is Charle Saatchi, the English advertising man who also takes care of the public image of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. The art world was diligently sown with rumors that his paintings were selling for $30,000, $50,000 or $75,000, though no one was on record as actually paying such sums for the work of the new stupor mundi...