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...showing signs of becoming a trend the admissions office and the College as a whole must now confront some of the larger issues it glossed over last spring. As concerned Black student leaders pointed out then more than one year with a low number of Black students could visibly diminish the "critical mass" of Blacks on campus, in turn worsening any negative race relations image Harvard may have in the outside world...
...austerity plan that was harsher than anything his conservative predecessors ever proposed. He chopped $7 billion in current spending, imposed a 1% personal income surtax and required each taxpayer to make a loan to the state equal to 10% of last year's income tax. The measures would diminish the purchasing power of virtually all Frenchmen, but they were especially resented by the already hard-hit middle-and upper-income brackets...
Taken on its own terms?"Let's face it," says Hamill, "we made a film for children"?Return of the Jedi is a brilliant, imaginative piece of moviemaking. But it does not diminish the accomplishment of Lucas and his youthful team to say that there are flaws nonetheless. The most obvious, ironically, is an overemphasis on effects and a too proud display of odd-looking creatures. Some otherwise breathtaking scenes, such as the visit to Jabba's lair, the hair-raising chases through the redwoods and the climactic space battle, are extended to the point of satiety. The other...
...decision by a new dean at Dartmouth College to cut back the size of his office's staff has enraged students there, who say the cutbacks will diminish minority input to the administration...
...State Department spokesman repeated the Administration's fears that the bishops' hoped-for halt of nuclear deployment would diminish prospects for a major arms-reduction agreement with the Soviet Union. Whatever his private dismay, President Reagan mildly observed that the document "is a legitimate effort to do exactly what we're doing, and that is to try to find ways toward world peace...