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Congress and Reagan adjust their course by the voters' compass
...that law would permit automakers to meet the safety standard with either airbags or "passive seat belts," which envelop the rider automatically when he shuts his car door. Given the choice, the manufacturers have expressed their intent to provide the less costly belts, which are easily tangled, difficult to adjust, uncomfortable, and thus likely to be disconnected by car owners. Passive belts alone will not save many more lives than existing seat belts...
Since Judge got her first varsity soccer start in national play, she has bad more time to adjust to Harvard's impressive soccer program. Recalling her first time on the twines. Judge's calm expression becomes more animated "The varsity goalie had trouble breathing in high altitudes," she remember. "Since I had played basketball, they knew I could catch, so the coach converted me from midfielder to goalie a week before the tourney...
Groot admits, however, that his thinking is conditioned as much by pragmatism as by solicitousness. "We don't have much choice," he says. "If we didn't adjust our salaries to respond to the market, we would lose our faculty...
While Hershbach declines to detail how any proposed amendments might adjust the formula and alleviate crowding in certain Houses--particularly at the Quad, where it is harder to "crowd" the many single bedrooms--he says the net result would not differ greatly from the current situation. But for those Houses that are crowded, he says. "We think it can be improved in a number of respects...