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...biggest stumbling block may be that the team's home--the Indoor Athletic Building--will not be ready for the beginning of the season. As a result, the spikers will have to contend with makeshift courts in Briggs Athletic Center...
...President must also contend with a drive in Congress to protect U.S. industries from foreign competition. More than 200 trade bills have been introduced, and protectionist sentiment is becoming so strong that it could overshadow all other political issues this fall. While Reagan, with considerable reason and courage, has opposed protectionist measures and last week decided against helping the domestic shoe industry (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), he is taking a heavy political risk. Part of his problem is that he has let the trade issue get away from him, instead of forcefully dealing with it earlier in the year, when...
...activists do not ask for a ban on the teaching of evolution, as they did at the Scopes trial, but for "balance." That means equal school time for creationism, which follows a particularly literal reading of Genesis. Not only were Adam and Eve the first two humans, creationists contend, but Bible chronology means the earth was created by God a mere 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. (Most scientists, Evangelicals included, estimate that the earth came into being 4.5 billion years ago.) Balancing laws to require inclusion of these ideas in Arkansas and Louisiana schoolrooms have been thrown...
Lawyers for the victims contend that Robins knew the Dalkon Shield could be dangerous long before the company stopped selling it. They also complain that Robins refused to alert women who were still wearing the device to have it removed. It was not until last year that the company finally ran full-page newspaper and magazine ads that warned women of the Dalkon Shield's risks and offered to pay the doctor's fee for having it taken out. To this day, though, Robins maintains that the Dalkon Shield is just as safe as any other IUD when properly inserted...
While Spence said that he plans to remain closely involved in the running of both the GSAS and the College, administrators contend that he may face trouble maintaining a strong hand over his new staff...