Word: tapped
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...visible campus organizations. But Harvard itself nominally recognizes its responsibility to support such groups--as it should in an academic community that prides itself on its diversity of thought and interests--by providing the dean of students with discretionary funds for just such purposes. A powerful student council should tap these funds and challenge the dean's authority to dispense then autonomously, instead of asking students to pay a second time for what their tuition already entitles them...
...hypocrisy is rampant. Wiretaps may be unpalatable, but they are as ubiquitous as the telephone and almost as old. Wiretapping by past Presidents of both political parties seems to have been more widespread, with fewer safeguards and looser standards, than under Nixon." He points out that the program to tap the 17 individuals was recommended by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, approved by Attorney General Mitchell and ordered by Nixon. "My office did not supply all the names nor was it aware of every wiretap," he writes. Nonetheless, Kissinger concludes, "while electronic surveillance is widely used in democracies, the wiretapping...
DIED. Eleanor Powell, 69, exuberant, leggy tap dancer whose nimble heels and toes propelled her to stardom in 1930s and '40s Hollywood musicals; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. In her first film, George White's Scandals (1935), Powell covered four miles in her dance routines, and in Broadway Melody of 1940, she gloriously matched Fred Astaire tap for tap. Those movies, and such others as Born to Dance (1936), Rosalie (1937) and Lady Be Good (1941), won her critical acclaim as the best woman tap dancer on film...
Fitzgerald saw scenes of this year's show. "Sealed With a Quiche," after the awards presentation yesterday afternoon. Fitzgerald said she enjoyed the preview of what Anderson called "a tradition of Harvard men in tutus and tap shoes...
...funds that are routinely paid in advance by clients and held in escrow bank accounts by their lawyers. When the amounts are small or in the bank for only a short time, they accumulate little or no interest. But pooled, the funds could generate millions in interest. To tap that potential pool, Florida has adopted a voluntary plan that allows any lawyer, without consulting clients, to pass along much of the interest on escrow accounts to Florida Legal Services. So far, about 600 of the state's 20,000 lawyers have signed up. California likes the interest-bearing idea...