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...hour was late and the motel parking lot was a jumble of cars, but they were out there anyway, a group of time-worn black men whipping a baseball around with sweet abandon, razzing and wisecracking and carrying on like kids. It had always been like this: the joy of the game transcending rock-hard diamonds and fading light...
...matter what the federal government does. Harvard will not abandon its commitment to an active affirmative action policy for women. Steiner said. Given the opportunity, though, the University might scale back some reporting procedures it deemed unnecessary or inaccurate, he said...
...breeder plant was fired up-and failed-near Detroit in 1966. Conventional nuclear reactors also create fuel, but about 35% less than they consume, rather than, like breeders, about 20% more. Says A. David Rossin of the American Nuclear Society: "Breeder reactors will be needed. To abandon Clinch River now would be a crippling blow to the U.S. breeder program." Agrees Pietro Pasqua, a physicist at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville: "We ought to be proceeding as fast as we can. We are now ten years behind the rest of the world...
...between Washington and Peking without offending either the mainland Chinese or the people of Taiwan. In that communiqué, and in the later normalization agreement of 1978 between the U.S. and China, both countries agreed that Taiwan was technically part of China. But the U.S. did not want to abandon its old allies on the island. Under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, Washington agreed to promote commercial and cultural relations with Taiwan and to provide it with defensive arms...
...outstanding soccer and basketball player before he lost his right leg to cancer in 1977, Fox began his "marathon of hope" in St. John's, Nfld., covering 3,317 miles in 4½ months, before the disease, which had spread to his lungs, forced him to abandon the venture near Thunder Bay, Ont. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just because they're disabled...