Word: summered
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...while the President remains extremely popular, there are no indications that America has, by and large, identified itself with the Administration's policies. Polling data demonstrates that many of those voting for the President do not agree with him ideologically. According to a late summer survey conducted by Market Opinion Research, a Detroit-based polling firm, Democrats still outnumber Republicans, 33 percent to 23 percent, with a full 33 percent of the electorate identified as independent. Eighteen to 24-year-old voters supported the President most enthusiastically, yet polling shows that younger voters remain the most liberal age group. Much...
...dislocation in time and isolation in society recur throughout the book. The first story, "Everybody watching and the time passing Like That." Pivots around the moment suspended in time, when the drama teacher is told of James Dean's death. For a sixteen-year-old working for the summer in a historically reconstructed fort. "It is always the summer of 1816." The fraternity housemother spends her life surrounded by young men of unvarying...
...club presidents have met for talks with Epps several times during the summer and the fall. They sent a paragraph-long letter to the first committee meeting stating that their members...
...This summer Cambridge asked OIT to process the ballots because "Harvard has the fastest high-speed reader in the city," and can process 1000 punched cards perminute, Scheir added...
College officials hazard varied reasons for their windfalls. "The economy is doing better," suggests Boston University Administrator David Hollowell, "and parents seem to feel comfortable paying for private schools." Moreover, admissions deans were counting on so-called summer melt from students who keep their options open by accepting places at several colleges. Some deans underestimated the number who would actually come. "The ghosts showed up," says Middlebury's associate admissions director, Herbert Dalton. In addition, at some schools fewer upperclassmen are leaving to make room. The dropout may be fading out. In today's tough job market, observes...