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...department will bring that issue to a hearing on December 19, when the public has had more time to assess the generators' possible environmental impact...
...real point is a democratic principle: if a majority of students want a checkoff on their term bill for PIRG or any other organization, that alone is sufficient cause for instituting it. Should not we as students have the capacity to assess ourselves for an organization we support? People who feel the term bill is a sacred object which should be kept inaccesible to those who pay it may disagree. But a failure to respond to the expressed preference of the majority, when it is costless to the university and non-binding, is an arrogant denial of students' rights. Mary...
...Smothers brothers' and other variety shows, Martin decided to hit the circuit himself. In 1973 he made the Tonight show, and more recently has been appearing on Saturday Night Live. Says Bill McEuen, Martin's longtime manager and boyhood friend: "We're trying to assess each move to make sure he doesn't become an instant cliché." The translation for that is a mix of limited television exposure and carefully spaced albums. (On his new album Let's Get Small, now climbing the charts, Martin recalls his cat's latest bath...
...sold in the U.S. below the cost of production. But little was done about the problem until two weeks ago, when the U.S. Treasury accused five Japanese steelmakers of dumping carbon plate and ordered them to post bonds totaling $50 million to cover penalty tariffs that Treasury might later assess against their products...
...from the Vatican, a mustachioed Spaniard and some 400 other delegates to the Belgrade meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation congregated in the corridors of starkly modern Sava Conference Center last week, much more was involved than a club reunion of old friends. They were meeting to assess how the signatory nations have complied with the "Three Baskets" of the agreement-military security, economic cooperation and humanitarian exchanges. It will not be an easy task. Even before the meeting began, there were fears that it would become a bitter political wrangle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over...