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Senator John Danforth of Missouri, who heads the Senate's International Trade Subcommittee, expressed concern about the U.S. trade deficit. Danforth avoided attributing the strength of the dollar to the federal budget deficit, but he said, to the general agreement of the Canadians, "Something has gone terribly wrong with the international trading system. This is not free trade as we envisioned it." A telling comment on Danforth's view emerged at the beginning of the week during a meeting with Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, when the Canadians learned that talks with Japan on telecommunications had been suspended that very...
Until recently, Whitla's office used results of the CUE survey to status the performance of graduate student teaching follows. Section leaders scoring below a 3.0 on the CUE ratings were routinely removed from teaching positions or "invited" to brush up their teaching skills at the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Whitla says...
...segments must be made of strong cloth and must be 24 inches high and 40 inches long in order to be stitched together, said Ellen Sarkisian, a teaching consultant at the Danforth Center who is organizing the ribbon movement at Harvard...
...John C. Calhoun. Last week, when the Senate's 53 Republicans gathered in the museum-like room to elect their leader for the next two years, the forensics were apparently no less rousing. Kansan Robert Dole claimed to be thoroughly persuaded by the speech his nominator, John Danforth of Missouri, made on his behalf. "It was so impressive," Dole quipped, "that I ended up voting for myself...
...White House would try to steamroller the Senate into meekly supporting Administration policies. The 22 Republican Senators up for re-election in 1986 were worried that Reagan might force them into votes that could damage their chances. In Dole the Senators knew they had a stand-up guy. Said Danforth in his nominating speech: "He can work with the Administration-not cave in to the Administration...