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...gulf crisis has sparked a general reluctance to invest in a region that has been an important trading partner for industrialized economies, contributing $3.3 billion to Germany's $81 billion trade surplus for 1989. For the moment, most capital projects have been delayed. Saudi Arabia, for instance, planned to construct 400 new industrial plants at a total cost of $40 billion in the next five years. Until the crisis is resolved, it is safe to assume that those projects will remain where they are today: in limbo...
Professor of Law Frank I. Michelman, who votedagainst the proposal, said he would have preferrednot to construct a new building at the expense ofso much prime green space in Holmes Field. But headded that his choice was "very close" and that henow views the issue as closed...
...committee also recommended that the Law School construct a four-story, 23,000 square-foot building in the northern part of Holmes Field, the school's main quadrangle, and use it primarily to house faculty offices which would be displaced by the library's new design...
...take that prophecy literally to worry about terrorism and other forms of contagion from regional conflicts and from "the wretched of the earth." We should be able to reduce our military commitments in the Third World, but we cannot escape them altogether. It is in our interest to help construct some degree of world order, especially as several Third World countries have nuclear weapons capability. That is also why the U.S. must continue pushing for nonproliferation. And that also strengthens the case for continued development of nuclear defense...
...need...to construct a curriculum that takes account of our times, of the intellectual concerns and intellectual battles of our time," he said...