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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Campus-wide elections, which began last night, will winnow the list down to four males and four females. The winners--who hold the posts for life--will be announced next Tuesday, according to Jellis...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finalists Named For Class Marshals | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

Wouldn't it be nice if instead an automotive expert asked you a series of questions and used your answers to winnow down the field to a few dream machines? And used the same format to help you decide how to finance the purchase? And did this all in an hour, free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEB'S MIDDLEMAN | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...purpose of grades is thus to winnow out the best students, the next best, and so on. How different, though, are most of the students here from each other? With the exception of the occasional genius or the handful of students who blow off a class due to laziness or lack of aptitude in that area, most people here work hard and do work that deserves a B+ or better...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: A Gentleman's 'B+' | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

Harvard has more than 500 pages of plans forthe various faculties. It now must winnow thoseplans into a "case" for a capital campaign...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University To Raise $2 Billion In 5 Years | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

More important than who gets what job is how Clinton conceives of his government operationally, whether he is able to winnow his varied and often contradictory promises to a few significant proposals capable of passing a Congress that will have its own agenda, and whether he is astute enough to understand that process and policy are inseparable. Clinton's first task, says the Progressive Policy Institute's Elaine Kamarck, must be "the definition of his mandate, something he needs to do early and often. If he doesn't do it, it will be done for him by the media, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What He Will Do | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

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