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Bargaining Chip. The White House insists, for several reasons, on considering the whole mix of offensive and defensive weapons simultaneously. For one thing, many U.S. disarmament experts warn that the Soviets, by improving the radar and rocketry in the SA-5 surface-to-air missiles now located around Russia's western cities, could upgrade that anti-aircraft system into an instant ABM network. More important is the argument that an ABM-only agreement would squander a bargaining chip. That chip is the U.S.'s Safeguard ABM, now under construction at Air Force bases in North Dakota, Montana...
...five-Jay Craven, Susan Gregory, Chip Marshall, John Scaglioti, and Kathy Sister-urged the Committee to propose the People's Peace Treaty for passage in the Senate and to support the upcoming demonstrations in Washington on Monday and Tuesday in which PCPJ will attempt to close the city by nonviolent obstruction of commuter bridges and roads...
Amherst, which barely lost to the Crimson, 4-3, last year, has a 2-1 record so far, but was badly beaten by Yale last week. The Lord Jeffs are led by what coach Tracy Mehr calls his "three primary performers" -Dom Valiunus, David Marx, and Chip Gordon. Mehr didn't exude any confidence as he said, "We're just hoping Harvard doesn't bomb us out there...
...lawsuits and proxy fights, those companies commonly considered "socially responsible" prove to be more profitable to their investors than those companies that are not. While this is hardly a fixed rule, the opposite assumption-that socially responsible organizations are relatively risky and unprofitable investments-is just as questionable, Blue-chip stocks, once considered the safest and best bet, are no longer sure moneymakers. As Forbes magazine noted in an editorial last year, the concept of blue-chip stocks "as a kind of Maginot Line behind whose ramparts [investors] could sit safe and sound" is obsolete. Blue-chip companies like...
Leading last week's broad advance were stocks of companies in retailing, television, oil, tobacco and electronics. High technology securities, especially those of the computer manufacturers, did well. Many of the blue chip and reliable glamour stocks have already been swept up in the sharp recovery and are no longer bargains. Thus, investors are now moving into less stable issues; potentially dangerous speculation is on the rise. Small investors continue to shy away from the market, and institutions remain by far the big buyers. They are pouring more of their daily cash inflow into the market than...