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...HUCTW member, Rosenboroegh called the current salary procedure "antiquated and unfair." Because large bureaucracies are involved in determining the increases, "your raise is being decided by people who don't even know you," he said yesterday...
...Radcliffe women finished the race in an extremely fast 6:08.6 ahead of Princeton (6:12) and Cornell (6:16.7). O'Leary attributed the rapid times to the natural tail current of the Housatonic River and a vicious tail wind...
...evidence is suggestive, there is still no clear understanding of what is going on. In their experiment, Pons and Fleischmann immersed electrodes of palladium and platinum in a bath of heavy water -- water whose ordinary hydrogen has been replaced with an isotope called deuterium. When they passed a current through the electrodes, the contraption produced heat. They concluded that deuterium ions had moved into the spaces between palladium atoms and fused together to form helium, giving off heat in the process...
...more likely consequence is that the P.R.I., faced with the prospect of social instability, would abandon current economic reforms for quick-fix policies that would mollify the masses. As Mexicans are fond of pointing out, their country has a long tradition of avoiding seemingly inevitable political upheaval. "The P.R.I. has an almost magical power to redirect itself to reflect the needs of the country," says a Mexican official. "And so we have the young technocrats running things. But if they should fail, then look for a wave of populism." If that happens, Salinas could easily turn against Washington...
Because of the current state fiscal crisis, the Education Reform Act of 1985 may not be fully funded next year. Hundreds of schools across the state, mainly the sorely lacking, inner-city public high schools, will lose badly needed revenue for special projects and equipment purchases...