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Ralph Sampson of Virginia was named the UPI College Basketball Player of the Year yesterday. Last year's winner, Depaul's Mark Aguirre, finished a distant second...
Normally, meetings of the 13-nation OPEC cartel are accompanied by pomp, pageantry and no small amount of worldwide hand wringing as the cartel's jetabout ministers swoop into distant capitals to push up the price of oil. Yet when word leaked of a secret gathering in Geneva two weeks ago of six of OPEC's top ministers, who had assembled at the invitation of Saudi Arabia to discuss pricing and production strategy, the oil-consuming nations seemed distinctly more relaxed than in the past...
...facilities, and under its ownership, circulation rose from 600,000 to nearly 1 million. Arco Chairman Robert O. Anderson had been eager to sell it, partly because he was finding it burdensome to oversee the paper's operations from his Los Angeles headquarters more than 5,000 miles distant. Said an Arco spokesman: "Even routine phone calls were difficult because of the eight-hour time difference...
Students are interested in a professor's teaching ability over a short time, but the University looks into the distant future, Bok said...
Although the Quad Houses are among the least popular choices this year, the number of students who have chosen to live there has been increasing steadily in the past few years. J. Woodland Hastings, master of North House, said yesterday, adding. "I think that the Quad is distant on the horizons of most freshmen. They just don't seem to look this...