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...talks by the end of the year. But Reagan's men had trouble deciding on a bargaining strategy. Weinberger and his Pentagon colleagues tended to favor the zero option. They maintained that it would be the best way to please the Europeans and put the Soviets in a bind. Haig, however, argued that the zero option would both raise false hopes in Europe and hinder serious arms-limitation negotiations with Moscow...
...President Carter's Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti, then insisted on a stricter interpretation of the law, which forbids unauthorized expenditures. While Civiletti's "opinion" did not legally bind Reagan, the President took it seriously enough to have his Office of Management and Budget draft contingency plans. So, apparently, did Congress. Well in advance of the deadline, it authorized one branch of Government to continue functioning, and with a spending increase: itself...
...bracket, and she lacked the tax benefits of owning a house. The trouble was that she could not meet the steep mortgage payments required for homes in the expensive Virginia suburbs. Her friend Suzanne Reed, 30, who works for the House Republican Research Committee, was in a similar bind. "It finally dawned on us," says Roberts, "that we just couldn't afford the kind of place we wanted alone...
...about the time, 46 years, that has soldered Norman and Ethel Thayer to each other, with complementary quirks and habits, tolerance and humor, love and concern. The time it takes to bind wounds the generations can inflict on each other?Norman and his daughter, Henry and his Jane. The time Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn have taken to travel their separate roads to this special union. The time on the screen that displays the deceptively easy effects of two actors, two half-centuries committed to getting it right in the theater and the movies. It is about this time?now?...
...Faculty Council should reject any proposal for pre-registration that could bind students to courses chosen before terms begin. Certainly the College could poll students on their probable course choices ahead of time; more efficient assignment of classrooms and allocation of section leaders can only help undergraduates, albeit indirectly. But provisions for course changes that entail financial penalties, cumbersome paperwork, or notations on a transcript that a student had switched courses must not be included. And the council should solicit student opinion before weighing any alternative...