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...shortrange, looks forward only a year, deals mostly with immediate procurement problems. The second, the Joint Strategic Operating Plan (JSOP), tries to account for the nation's military needs for the next ten years-what weapons and equipment must be developed, and how much they will cost to attain and maintain. The third, the Joint Long-Range Strategic Study (JLRSS), contemplates a 14-year period. What new international trends or crises might crop up? How should they be met? A JLRSS study might assume that by 1979 the entire Arab Middle East would be firmly united behind Egypt...
Humility and Respect. As the first female descendant of Patriarch Adolph Ochs to attain such eminence, Granddaughter Ruth, now 43, accepted her new stewardship with both humility and respect for tradition. "The Chattanooga Times," she wrote in a statement for the editorial page, "continues under the direction of the same family that has guided its path since 1878. It will be my earnest endeavor that the Chattanooga Times shall serve this area in every way that a responsible newspaper can, mindful always that it shall 'give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of any party, sect...
...only one month out of every 25-a period referred to by scientists as "the window." All through November the window was open, but the first U.S. attempt to peek inside failed when the Mariner C spacecraft, unable to jettison its 300-lb. fiber-glass protective shield, could not attain the necessary speed...
Both elements are inferentially Fellini, and Fellini labors hugely to reconcile the contradiction. In II Bidone he fails: the showman dissolves into the infant, the infant becomes a sort of devil in diapers. But the failure is not final. In 8½ the opposites attain a higher synthesis: in the infant the showman finds spiritual rebirth, in the showman the infant finds creative release...
...General Education program and calls for renewed effort on the part of the Faculty to Gen Ed. this group sees the distribution requirement in the background and doesn't like it. Even more irritating to supporters of Gen Ed, the Doty Report never discusses whether General Education can better attain the goals of a Gen Ed program that departmental courses...