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...Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...
Remodeling a curriculum also means retraining a faculty. Carleton College in Minnesota will hold a series of seminars to expose faculty members to new uses of computers for tasks that could include choreographing dance or analyzing historical evidence. Davidson College in North Carolina will organize two summer institutes for liberal arts faculty members. They will be taught by scientifically oriented professors, among them a mathematician who uses his techniques to consider social values, such as conservation, as well as costs in solving problems...
However, with less than a minute gone in the second overtime. Bowdoin freshman Jill Birmingham took a rebound off the right goal post, booted the ball to teammate Ann Davidson, who slammed it into the left corner for the Bowdoin...
Married for seven years and father of two children, Nagy calls himself a family man "with a vengeance." He once took "a paternity leave" to become the primary parent for his son while his wife, Holly Davidson, pursued her Ph.D. at Princeton. "We still think we are newlyweds, but I guess we're not," he says. "As Dick Van Dyke would say, we're very happily married...
...region; and having a greater say over the teachers and contract workers sent out from Britain. Indeed, the evening revealed long-simmering resentments against the British. "Is there anything we can do about the same colonial administration that we disliked before that is now back?" asked Donald Davidson, who runs a tourist guesthouse in Port Stanley...