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...committee hoped that the University would reconsider its plans to renovate the hall and tried to persuade the administration to abandon the project through these letters and a series of phone calls and meetings...
Likewise, they already have one foot out the door, poised to abandon the temperamental New England weather, overcrowded Core courses, the occasional typically Harvardian ego and the stress of work in general...
...fact, according to Burris, the intellectual level of conversation actually increased when the men and women were mixed because the men were forced to abandon their two main topics of conversation: sports and women...
Yeltsin uses another tactic to calm the anger he encounters--an immediate dispensation of funds. In the U.S. such pork-barrel spending is usually hidden in a maze of worthwhile legislation. In Russia, Yeltsin earmarks billions of rubles with abandon. In just the past several weeks he has signed a decree giving a $5 billion subsidy to farmers and has said commercial electricity rates will be cut in half. Those big items are ruinous enough, but Yeltsin's aversion to fiscal sanity goes further. In Yaroslavl, for example, he pledged $700,000 to house veterans of the Afghanistan...
...subject appears to have been rethought. White House and Pentagon sources say the Clinton Administration is expected to announce soon--perhaps this week--that no later than the year 2001, the U.S. military will unilaterally abandon the use of mines, except to protect South Korea and the Persian Gulf. White House officials even suggest that the ban could begin as early as 1999. "We've all agreed we're going to have to get rid of land mines," says a senior Pentagon policymaker. "We have to lump them together with chemical and biological weapons. Even though we used them more...