Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spinney is now a beleaguered figure. He has been taken off broad program analysis and assigned to study nitpicking details. He has been told not to discuss his theories with colleagues. Whether he has enough outside interests to sustain him is doubtful. Apart from admitting a passion for sailing, he will not discuss his personal life in any detail, apparently viewing it as irrelevant to the costs of weapons systems. He is divorced from his first wife, who got custody of their two children, and is remarried to a computer specialist named Alison who has borne him two more youngsters...
...improved storage outlook-which the College will announce in detail next week is apparently the result of suggestions for new storage spaces made by the Undergraduate Council and submitted to College officials two weeks...
Officials said the amount of storage space could be expanded by "experimenting" with areas in the Houses and freshman dorms not previously used to store student belongings. But administrators refused to detail the new spaces under consideration...
...situation regarding the new restriction will likely remain confused until the matter is clarified by Princeton's James Litback, who is charged with the responsibility for suggesting how the change should apply to Ivy League schools. Although Litback declined to detail the specifies of his report, he anticipates that any alumni contact with individual students which is not face-to-face will be allowed to continue. "The ruling specifies that off-campus contacts for the purpose of recruiting should be done by staff members, not other representatives of athletic interest, and this is not intended to interfere with the normal...
...upset the Queen." No evidence is offered that anyone has done so. As for the other royals, reverence has its limits. "I feel the public has a right to know anything we can tell them. My job is to report every facet of the royal beings in as much detail as possible. They are fair game...