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...with football, Clemson takes its tennis program seriously. Coach Chuck Kriese answers his phone. "Tiger Tennis," so you know from minute one that he means business. And seriousness has bred success for Clemson, as the squad's heady national ranking of sixth at tests...
Equally disturbing, restoring the accessibility of a Harvard education seems largely out of the College's contro' Officials here blame much of the drop on the President's financial aid cuts; those reductions have not only reduced students' financial assets, but have also bred dangerous misconceptions about the availability of a Harvard degree...
Nonetheless, growing troubles abroad, the persistence of the recession and the impasse over the budget have bred tension and frustration at the White House. The mood appears to be shared by the President. He is distressed by efforts to portray him as Scrooge and believes the press is taking an unduly negative tone in reporting on his Administration. Though Reagan is usually careful to conceal these feelings, now and then they flash out damagingly, as in his "South Succotash" wisecrack two weeks ago, for which he had the grace to apologize later...
...MSPCA claims that pets are less suited for experiments than specially bred lab animals because they have a lower survival rate. But said, adding that the unknown condition of pound animals before they are caught adversely affect statistical results...
...John Reed clubs of the 1930s captured the spirit that perpetuated the legend: a dream shared by artists and writers of joining hands with all the oppressed peoples of the earth and marching forth into perfect society and a life of happiness. The hard times of those years bred many writers diffident to the system of privilege. They held out their hands--if only for a moment--to the Communist movement which grew in America during the depression...