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...spite of this year's warm winter and an international fall in oil prices. Harvard expects that its energy costs will continue to rise this year because it is negotiating a new long term steam contract with the Com Energy Steam Corporation. O'Brien added...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Tuition to Rise by 8.7%; Fees Will Total $13,150 | 2/2/1983 | See Source »

...politician from Rhine-land-Palatinate who has spent three decades in Christian Democratic national politics, Kohl is a striking contrast to the hard-driving and brilliant but sometimes arrogant Schmidt. Known in West Germany as the Black Giant, the dark-com plexioned 6-ft. 4-in. jowly Kohl is folksy, gregarious and a devout Roman Catholic. In the Bundestag, Schmidt is always poised and formal. Kohl, on the other hand, has frequently been seen sitting on the opposition benches roaring with laughter, as if parliamentary business were some huge joke. Kohl is fond of saying that "my strength is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Changing of the Guard | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

Topics on the center's initial research agenda include regulatory reform, improving the American economy's international com- petitiveness, and examining the impact of public policy on private investors...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Business-Government Center Names Publisher As Director | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

...given Shultz refract an implied criticism of of Haig. Haig. "Shultz "Shultz doesn't doesn't make make every every issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig's style had be gun to be an issue in itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolly Taking Charge | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

...times, Connie Washam, 32, has nearly given up on her husband Gary, marketing director for a San Diego com puter graphics firm. "We don't plan on him for dinner," she says. "We don't plan on him for anything. He's kind of a drop-in guest." Says Gary in his defense: "I'm in a double bind. The computer gives me immediate rewards. I get positive strokes every time I solve a problem. On the other hand, I enjoy being with my family. But if you spend too much time with them, you lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Real Apple of His Eye | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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