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...person, and even the talent show is $2.00. Because the senior class committee, which sponsors these parties, does not receive enough funds from the University, they must charge students for each event. I know it is monotonous to list all the figures, but they add up, especially if we tack on the hefty expense of a four year Harvard education...
...Tonics, an all-male a capella group founded in 1979, took an even more unconventional tack with its "Free Stuff Giveaway" at their latest concert last weekend...
Maynes criticized the "blustering" and "boisterous" tack that the Reagan Administration has taken toward the U.N. He said that the percentage of votes in which the U.S. has sided with the majority has declined from 40 percent in the mid-1950s to less than 15 percent today...
Many civil libertarians join in the criticism. Says Edward Martone, executive director of the New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "If every inner-city principal took the Joe Clark tack, they'd just throw one-third of their student body into the street. At best those kids are going to get minimum-wage jobs. At worst they're going to end up committing crimes and being incarcerated...
...BEST TACK After retrieving the America's Cup from Australia, San Diego Yachtsman Dennis Conner had barely exhaled before New Zealand found a loophole in the old deed and issued a new challenge in an outsized maxiboat...