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...contend with a strong headwind from the port side which blew us to starboard--the blades were hitting the water during a lot of the race," three-seat Charlie Storey said. "It was just as windy but not as choopy as the basin--it was definitely an uncharacteristic race, but the team really came together," he added...
...coming decade threatens to be a damaging one for higher education. Like every segment of society, colleges and universities must contend with mammoth costs brought on by rampant inflation. The past 20 years have been an era of growth for higher education. Now, too many institutions will have to complete for a tighter market of students because of a drop in the college-age population--a large portion of which is cynical about the value of a degree in a world marked by rising tuition and cab-driving Ph.D.s. Compounding these problems is the Reagan-Stockman offensive against federal spending...
Critics of private justice programs contend that they have two great faults. One is the secrecy of the court proceedings, which disturbs many champions of press freedom. Another is that private courts are inherently discriminatory, since the swift justice they offer is available only to those who can afford to hire a judge. On the other hand, says Preble Stolz, a law professor at Berkeley, "if the cases that this system takes out of the pipeline are the ones that take several months to try normally, then that amounts to quite a bit of time saved to try many other...
Nevertheless, up against a few of the street realities that the rest of us contend with every day, the Prince often sounds like a football coach (as when he makes one of his frequent appearances on behalf of British trade), or like a referee who is not used to getting his shirt dirty. "See if you can sort things out," he told a group of wrangling police and black demonstrators. "You cannot go around like this...
...advisers agree with Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman, who says, "I don't think it will have any significant effect on the Hill." On the other hand, some Democrats are afraid they will be hampered in making an aggressive case against those cuts that they contend hurt the poor. Says one liberal: "You could never get anyone to go after him person ally, because he's a nice guy. But now it will be difficult even to voice anything against the program. That would be viscerally resented by a lot of people...