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Since then, predictions that Dudley House would diminish in size have proved correct, with some estimates putting the current size of the House at half the level it was two years ago. Now, with overcrowding and transfer student worries still major concerns, officials are looking to Dudley House as a possible solution to and no longer a cause of the difficulties...
...killing of the whales might have been expected to provoke a quick response from the U.S. The Packwood-Magnuson amendment to the 1976 Fishery Conservation and Management Act requires Washington to punish those countries that "diminish the effectiveness" of the international convention for the regulation of whaling. It can do this by curtailing their fishing rights and slashing by 50% the amount of fish they are allowed to take from American territorial waters. Such sanctions would have little impact on countries that do their fishing close to home. But they would have an enormous effect on the fish-eating Japanese...
...less politically helpful than some of his lower level friends might have hoped; Republicans were able to capture only 14 seats in Congress (not the 25-30 some GOP analysts had hoped for) and actually surrendered two seats in the Senate. The relatively frayed Reagan coattails do not diminish the President's own land-slide, but they do serve to put proper perspective on the nature of the 1984 "mandate;" Americans like Ronald Reagan, but they still have reservations about his party and his policies...
...economic impact last week in Britain was sharp and swift. The $1.35-per-bbl. price cut will diminish the government's $13 billion annual oil revenues by about 5%. On the day of the announcement, the British pound fell to a record low of $1.19. Shaken by the skidding currency and a possible worsening of the country's coal miners' strike, traders on the London Stock Exchange sent the Financial Times industrial share index to its steepest one-day loss in history...
...with Cairo, reducing import barriers between the two countries. Meanwhile, Arafat met with both Mubarak and Hussein; by July, he had sufficiently rebuilt his authority within the P.L.O. to call a Palestine National Council meeting for Sept. 25 in Algiers. Assad, alarmed that Arafat might use the occasion to diminish the Syrian leader's influence in the P.L.O., flew to Algiers last month to pressure Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid into canceling the P.L.O. get-together. Chadli agreed. Hussein was so dismayed by the Syrian President's heavyhanded interference that he decided to make the burgeoning Jordanian relationship with...