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...tanks for its F-15 jet fighters. But concern centers on the AWACS, which are capable of tracking planes and ships within a 250-mile range. Israel's friends in Congress believe the planes in Saudi hands would severely breach the security of the Jewish state. Opponents also contend that it is imprudent to give state-of-the-art military technology to a regime as potentially vulnerable to overthrow as the Riyadh monarchy...
...promising because Jim Callinan, the man who has to 1) stay healthy and 2) run effectively, if Harvard is to contend, led all rushers with 102 yards on 20 carriers, his lifetime best...
When a field is very new, they contend, advances often have as much to do with a researcher's technique as with facts--and technique can be hard to describe to others. "The kind of technology I am involved in--computer software--is so complex and unstructured that no document provides the information necessary to do it," Thomas E. Cheatham, McKay Professor of Computer Science and a consultant for Software Options Inc., says. "It simply cannot be done unless you have someone involved in both practical and basic research. You have to be actually involved in the technology transfer rather...
...coalition is even confident of victory in the upcoming appeals of the EPA and DEQE decisions, although Ploss believes that "When you enter the courtroom, you enter Harvard's den." The coalition's lawyers contend that MATEP is not entitled to the status of a non-profit health or educational institution granted it by the EPA. "They created MATEP as a for-profit institution and now they wish to disregard that and have the plant considered part of Harvard. It's clear from the law that you can't," says Jerome Aaron, the attorney who will represent Mission Hill...
...does, that Rajavi will be the beneficiary. Rouhollah K. Ramazani, an Iran watcher at the University of Virginia, suggests that "Khomeini still has a tenacious hold on the people, especially the lower classes." French experts, who were among the first to predict the Shah's demise, contend that the Mujahedin may have suffered more at the Khomeini government's hands than they are willing to admit. Some Western intelligence sources doubt that the Mujahedin, though superbly organized, have as many followers as they claim. "They are not a popular movement," one analyst asserts. "Their ideology is not understood...