Word: obvious
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HOUSE Majority Leader Charles F. Flaherty is the obvious choice in the race for representative of the 27th Middlesex District. Flaherty, practically assured to become House speaker if re-elected, carries almost 23 years of state government experience with him--an important qualification Republican opponent and political novice A. George Catalovo cannot come close to matching...
...also begs an obvious question: what kind of business will choose to operate in a state that allows its education system, police departments, fire departments, affordable housing programs and hospitals to be cut to the bone? CLT will drive away as much business as it attracts. No wonder numerous conservative business associations oppose its passage...
Though he makes rounds in hospitals including Babies Hospital, a unit of New York City's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Stubs is clearly no ordinary doctor. To those who witness his offbeat bedside manner, Stubs' true trade is obvious. He's a clown, a founding member of the one-ring Big Apple Circus. But to Stubs, a.k.a. Michael Christensen, working with young hospital patients is serious business...
...starters, Zaleskas uses obvious code words and phrases to make veiled ad hominem attacks on the president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats, James M. Harmon '93. She writes that "famous Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats include the creator of non-ordered choice" and proceeds to castigate "one member" for calling gubernatorial candidate John R. Silber "a jerk." Both of these comments refer to Harmon, and Zaleskas knows...
Such selective enforcement is an obvious affront to any notions of freedom of expression. But even if they were fairly enforced, the rules prohibiting postering by unauthorized groups would be unacceptable. As the AALARM founders pointed out, student organizations cannot gain the administration's approval unless they have at least 10 members and two faculty advisors--including one tenured professor. What about a single person's ideas? Are they not entitled to an outlet? And what about groups so outlandish that faculty members refuse to associate with them? Should they, too, be silenced...