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...behavioral revolution in political science of the 1950's and '60's. He says that before this 'revolution,' students of government often wrote detailed, voluminous tomes which were all descriptions of institutions, such as Congress, without including any theory. "But a little too much of the baby was thrown out with the bathwater," he says. "The revolution was correct in that detailed description was not enough, but the baby that was thrown out was the institutions themselves...
Wiley needed just one play from scrimmage following one of seven Ray O'Hare punts to register his first TD toss--a beautifully-thrown strike just past the outstretched arms of Crimson cornerback Rick Patton that went for 58 yards...
With the Dos Santos government committing an estimated 80% of its budget to military needs, the economy has been thrown into chaos. These days a dollar will buy more than 1,500 kwanza on the black market, or 50 times as much as at the official exchange rate. At bank rates, a sack of potatoes costs $100. Some 750,000 squatters jam the garbage-filled streets of Luanda, where many scrounge through trash cans for food and live in shacks. Even a confidential Soviet report on the capital acknowledged its "sense of hopelessness...
They assumed wrong. Mecham won, and his upset victory has thrown the race into turmoil. His Democratic opponent, also chosen after a tough primary, is Carolyn Warner, for twelve years superintendent of public instruction. That choice left many of the state's top business and political leaders, who had supported neither candidate, scrambling for an alternative. Enter Bill Schulz, a millionaire real estate developer who became a Democrat in the mid-'70s and almost upset Senator Barry Goldwater in the 1980 election...
...season Crimson depth chart showed five prospects for the quarterback spot. Of the five, only one, Bill Koehler, had ever thrown a pass in varsity action before--that an incompletion against Columbia last fall...