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Created in 1938 to regulate airline fares and assign routes, the CAB is scheduled to go out of business on Jan. 1. Its demise will be the final step in the process of airline deregulation that began in 1978 and has led to fierce competition in the industry. Alfred Kahn, who spearheaded the deregulation drive as CAB chairman under President Carter, joined several other former members of the board and dozens of ex-staffers from across the U.S. to raise a glass last week. Kahn said he was always confident that the CAB would be doomed once deregulation got going...
Although it takes a computer only 13.9 seconds to assign upper class Houses to the more than 1600 freshmen, the ordeal of choosing rooming groups, blocs, and the three choices of Houses (ranked in order of preference) is a nearly year-long obsession for many eager fresh...
Under the deal, one party leader would be Prime Minister for 25 months, the other would take over for the following 25 months. Labor and Likud planned to continue negotiating on Sunday over who would serve first, as well as how to assign the 24 posts in the new Cabinet. One of last week's proposals called for the positions to be divided evenly between the two camps, but exactly how remains in dispute. According to Peres' scenario, he would initially head the government, with a deputy prime ministership and the Foreign and Finance ministries going to rival...
Officially, Reagan Administration policy is that all four demands are inseparable. A U.S. aide said, "We're not prepared to assign priorities to them." In reality, however, it has been an article of faith among many in Washington that the demand for democracy is paramount. As a senior U.S. official in Managua put it in June, "Internal democracy solves all the other problems...if there isn't any, Nicaragua's threat to its Central American neighbors will not abate...
...laity more often associated with priests and nuns. Yet it is not a religious order, since its lay members hold secular jobs. It is both highly centralized and decentralized: men's and women's General Councils in Rome, appointed by Del Portillo, set policy and assign national directors, but chapters in each nation plan and finance their own operations...