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Larsen cited Bok's gibe that women's groups at the Law School had demanded 51 per cent of the school's recruiting funds. Bok termed this "outrageous" and made a joke...
...very hard to estimate how big the jump will be--it's my guess it will be less dramatic than 50 per cent," Richard Lettieri, acting manager of the Massport Noise Abatement Office, said last night. There will not be an increase in night flights, Lettieri added...
...packaged like cornflakes." She also knows that in a one-on-one, Presidential-style contest with Callaghan, she might have lost hands down: the same polls which showed large Tory leads also put Callaghan way ahead in personal popularity. The striking fact, however, is that with a 75 per cent voter turnout, and a national voting swing of 5 per cent--the highest in decades--the electorate went decisively for Tory policies, scorning the middle-ground consensus on which both major parties had traditionally operated, and which had been considered indispensable both in winning elections and governing Britain...
...view of what U.S. foreign policy goals should be--defense of our traditional allies and of the United States itself, and the maintenance of a nuclear second-strike capability. In calm and modest style, they then describe in detail how U.S. defense spending could be reduced by 40 per cent. They propose cutbacks in the forces "which are primarily useful not against the U.S.S.R. but against the lesser military powers in the poorer half of the world, like Vietnam," and in "the vast excess in the quantity of nuclear weapons" that the U.S. now has and continues to build. They...
...small things this season," the veteran pitcher said, leaning back in his chair and talking softly. "We've been playing apart, and the result is we have played inconsistently. The second thing was the coaching change--coach Nahigian is a great guy who gives 100 per cent for the kids and the job, but obviously in the beginning you have to adjust to a new coach's style...