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...Faculty. Pusey and Ford made it clear to Guinier that Dunlop would work with him to get financial support for the proposed DuBois Institute. Yet, immediately after this meeting, Dunlop began his efforts to take the project out of Guinier's control. When he found he could not wrest the institute from the chairman's grasp. Dunlop made sure that the institute got no funding from foundations...
...Langely is a woman who dares./ So pick good Pickens." This singing commercial, taped in German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish, underpins a breezy, almost folksy campaign against Incumbent Edward I. Koch, 47, a hard-working Democrat. In his appearances at subway and bus stops, Koch stresses his attempts to wrest mass-transportation money from road-subsidy funds, and emphasizes his recent proposal to admit Soviet Jews and Asian Ugandans to the U.S. without regard to immigration quotas. Given Koch's popularity in the Silk Stocking District, there seems slight chance that the voters will pick Pickens...
Ever since they managed to wrest control away from the Republican Reconstructionists in the post-Civil War days, the conservative Democrats have had a hammer-lock on state politics. Although its specific interests have changed over the years, the Texas political elite has become more sophisticated in its dealings rather than more responsive to the needs of the diverse Texas constituency...
...rules of the game and the means for enforcing those rules were in the control of a group of men who had dominated Texas politics for decades--the conservative Democrats. Although their specific interests had changed since the post-Civil War days when they had finally managed to wrest control away from the Republican Recon-structionists, these men only became more sophisticated in their dealings rather than more responsive to the needs of the people whom they had supposedly been elected to serve...
...most dispiriting consequences of friction between students and university administrators during recent years has been the stepped up efforts of administrators to control the campus press. In each of the last three years, officials at large state universities have sought to wrest control of student newspaper from student editors and vest final decision making power in the most indefensible one threatens the independence of The Florida Alligator the daily newspaper of the University of Florida...