Word: unlikelyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State House observers agree that Frank has a promising political future but his re-election prospects in 1978 are cloudy. Because the House membership has been reduced from 240 to 160, part of Noble's district has been combined with Frank's and the two friends will be pitted against...
Whatever the arguments, the next presidential election is unlikely to be a direct-vote contest. Any amendment must be passed by both houses of Congress by a two-thirds vote and ratified by three-quarters of the state legislatures. The founding fathers made sure that even the "blots" on the...
Kenneth Koch, 52, a bespectacled, bushy-haired poet and English professor at Columbia, has a peculiar knack of finding poets in unlikely places. In 1968, for example, he whisked into Manhattan's P.S. 61 and, before they could say "Charlie Brown," had sixth-graders versifying about their favorite heroes...
But Champion was more than a mere overseer. He launched his own projects, like the Mission Hill Medical Area power plant and housing project in Roxbury and the plan to set up a new, quasi-independent firm to manage Harvard's endownment portfolio, instead of farming it all out to...
While the cult of masculine honor is giving way in Tunisia, the void may be filled all too predictably by the cult of materialism. In the modernization process it is unlikely that in Tunisia, probably the most secularized of Muslim nations, Islamic considerations will provide much competition to the seduction...