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...proposal requires professors in these courses to submit an official mid-term grade for all students late in the term. If a student did not take the final exam, this mid-term grade would appear on his transcript, although the grade would not count towards rank listing or honors degree requirements...
...climbed to 40%, but dropped to 34% in 1976. At the 1978 mid-term party convention, women pushed through a recommendation, adopted as a rule in 1979, requiring that delegate seats be equally divided between men and women. The Democratic result in 1980 nearly met the requirement: 50.77% men and 49.23% women...
...sacrifice a little gasoline rather than shed American blood to defend OPEC pipelines in the Middle East." To combat inflation, he asked for an immediate freeze on wages, prices, profits, dividends, interest rates and rents. Repeating a metaphor he had used with effect in a speech to the Democratic mid-term convention in Memphis in 1978, he concluded: "Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. Now is such a time...
Chavan's chances of forming a coalition government seem slim; his own base of support, a branch of the divided Congress Party, holds only 77 seats in the 542-member Lok Sabha (lower house). Since no party wants a mid-term general election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
Carter went to the mid-term Democratic convention in Memphis to raise the party's consciousness about budget cutting. Teddy Kennedy went out to oppose Carter. Next day back in Washington, Kennedy was scheduled to share the presidential box at the benefit for the Special Olympics, a Kennedy family project. It might have been one of those times that a President, just slightly irritated over Kennedy's divisive tactics, could have called in with a cold. But too many people were watching. Carter put on his tux and his grin and went...