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...bolstering the College's paltry women's studies offerings. Only a few departments--such as Afro-American Studies, which now offers a course on Black women writers--have risen to the call. And, that so few departments bothered to vie for the new slot does not augur well for the futures of this grassroots approach...
...years, plentiful harvests have been the grocery shopper's best friend. Thanks to the rich yield of American farms, food prices have risen more slowly than inflation since 1979. But last week the Government disclosed that the combination of bad weather and a controversial farm-subsidy program may augur steeper increases ahead. Based on an Aug. 1 survey, the Department of Agriculture estimated that the 1983 corn crop will be only 5.24 billion bu. That output would be 38% below last year's record level and would represent the smallest harvest since...
...bent on turning the Year of the Missile into a replay of the Cuban missile crisis, at least in its symbolic dimension, as a clash of wills between the superpowers. While this does not necessarily mean a return to the brink of nuclear war, it certainly does not augur well for an agreement that would secure the nuclear peace, nor for a summit at which such an agreement might be signed. -By Strobe Talbott
Under questioning from the Senators, Shultz made it clear that the low-decibel rhetoric did not augur an imminent Reagan-Andropov summit. He reiterated Reagan's contention that such a meeting would be useless unless there was a probability of "some significant outcome." The U.S. must play hard to get. "The minute you see another guy really wants any agreement," he said...
...Dense Pack as its centerpiece, the U.S. will have done more than close the counterforce gap. It will have opened a window of vulnerability on the Soviet ICBMs more serious, and harder for the Soviets to close, than the one that Reagan believes now faces the U.S. That would augur badly for strategic stability. It would mean that the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces would be more likely to go to a "launch on warning" alert. The more vulnerable its ICBMs, the more tempted the Kremlin would be to fire them off at the first indication of a U.S. attack...