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...mentality is there: Fitzsimmons has the power to let the number of international students "creep up" (Nye's phrase) as he finds more "excellent candidates," (also Nye's phrase). And the space could be there as soon as the affiliated housing near the Quad is renovated...
With their jobs secure, the biggest problem facing most returnees will be simply fighting off the everyday monotony that is bound to creep back into their lives after the life-and-death stimulation of war. "There's going to be a very high high, followed by a natural letdown," says Meg Falk, head of the Navy Family Support Program. "Everyone's got to come down to earth...
...power of the television news industry to influence American public opinion is vastly overstated, regardless of the biases which inevitably creep into any reporting. Hallin quoted one survey which placed the percentage of Americans who watch any TV news--national or local--at one-third for any given day. Only half watch at least one news broadcast in any given month. Certainly the TV news audience increases during a war, but huge audiences rarely formed during the eight years of media attention given to the Vietnam War. For many, the war was just another story...
While the rest of the Administration worries about Scuds and tanks, a few of George Bush's advisers have turned their attention to the weighty matter of what to call the President's re-election effort. The straightforward CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President) will simply not do: too many associations with the tainted Nixon and Watergate years. Other possibilities discussed, albeit none very seriously...
...refused to heal. A few months later the foot was so badly infected that it had to be amputated. Shortly before Christmas, Hettler, 47, suffered a paralyzing stroke. The infection and the stroke were complications resulting directly from the slow progression of diabetes. "The disease," observes Hettler, "can really creep...