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...committee asked for the change because the Student Council would not be able to function with the reduced operating budget, Kenneth J. Drexler '84, a member of the panel, said last night...
Several Justices questioned Weinberg's charge that Congress wrote draft legislation in 1948 "in an atmosphere permeated by male chauvinism." Chief Justice Warren Burger asked the lawyer last month. "Since when is it the function of the courts to inquire into atmospheres...
Sacks says the institute could be a prototype for legal studies similar to the function the hospital internship serves for medical schools...
...special interest is diluted. A vote against cash benefits for one's constituents can far more easily be defended as a regrettable part of a much broader bill Moreover, an omnibus bill of cuts tends to force special interest groups to compete with each other. Lobbyists clearly function best when they deal with one issue at a time. In fact some White House aides only half facetiously forecast that following the President's proposals on Feb. 18 for sharp spending cuts, special interest lobbyists flying into Washington's National Airport would clog up at the gates...
Braswell said, "The math portion of the test is not intended for math professors or graduate students, but rather for the general student. Its function is to measure aptitude--the ability to deal with quantitative concepts...