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...administration did react to new student groups by forming committees to respond to them. The minority student report spurred administrators to appoint a panel to bolster recruitment efforts. The University also formed a committee to address gay rights issues...
This dilemma was evident in the November revelation that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 had attempted to swap a $500,000 gift in exchange for University Officer status. The K-School, with only a small pool of alumni but ever-expanding programs, badly needed the money to bolster the school's loan forgiveness program. Administrators let the demands of fundraising overshadow Harvard's ethical guidelines...
...bolster Rocard's chances of eventual success, Mitterrand last weekend called a snap parliamentary election. In a televised statement, he announced that he was dissolving the National Assembly and summoning voters to the polls on June 5 and 12. His aim: to win Rocard a parliamentary majority. Rocard, 57, is a pragmatic self-described social democrat who launched an aborted challenge to Mitterrand's candidacy in 1981 and opposed the sweeping nationalizations that followed the Socialist victory that year. A former Agriculture Minister, Rocard has consistently emerged in opinion polls as one of France's most popular politicians...
That strategy by GM -- America's leading industrial company -- will bolster its profitability but do nothing to help the U.S. close the trade deficit. Nor will any trade bill Congress devises have much chance of success if U.S. companies lose their resolve to outhustle and outsell foreign competitors...
...additional reason for the break, according to Middle East analysts, is to bolster Saudi Arabia's image in Washington. Congressmen are lining up to block a proposed $825 million Saudi arms package. Saudi Arabia also announced its agreement to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Some U.S. lawmakers have worried that the Saudis' new Chinese medium-range missiles could be fitted with nuclear warheads or fired at Israel, or both...