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...agrees that his group was possibly the most qualified panel to consider the topic. "I think it was an appropriate vehicle by which presidents could come together and assert their common concern for the impact of college athletics on academic standards," he says...
This problem is especially critical at Harvard, which specialists assert fell behind in the field...
...inaugurated as Lebanon's President, was head of the Lebanese Forces. But Amin Gemayel, who became President in his brother's place, was never as close to the militia as either Pierre or Bashir, and as President of Lebanon, Amin has been determined to assert the power of the central government over the whole of Lebanon. He cannot do much outside Beirut as long as the Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian forces occupy so much of his country, but last week he succeeded at least in unifying his capital city under a single command for the first time since...
...have a lot of confidence in myself," Dixon said after the game. "I just wait for when they need me and then I assert myself...
...generals assert that "if we continue to do business as usual," the Air Force will be unable to buy as many planes and missiles as it plans even if Congress votes every penny President Reagan requests. Costs of major weapons systems, the generals found, are continuing to rise far more rapidly than can be accounted for by simple price inflation. For example, they estimate that B-1 bombers will cost $285 million each, vs. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's current figure of $200 million. Also, they said, "the current development time for major Air Force [weapons] systems...