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Lately, sinking together has been a distinct possibility. In March, National Steel announced it was "not economically feasible" to modernize the marginally profitable (less than $10 million on 1981 sales of $1 billion) Weirton plant; the company prefers to invest in other enterprises with "the potential for substantially higher returns." By 1987 most of the factory would be shut down and 70% of the work force fired, unless, National Steel said, Weirton's 8,800 workers would like to buy the facility and run it themselves...
...wealthy undergraduates who could attend college without federal assistance to continue to ingore draft registration, while poor students would either have to start signing up or lose their financial aid. Though characteristically cautious, Harvard's General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said last week. "It is a mistake to link distinct needs with social responsibility...
...system of spy bases, ships, planes and satellites. It operates round the clock and employs some 10,000 staffers round the globe. Cheltenham is a vital part of the West's constant effort to break the Soviet Union's military and diplomatic codes. Now there is a distinct possibility that GCHQ may have unwittingly been providing information to the Soviets, a disaster that, if true, could nullify many of Britain's code-breaking efforts and jeopardize its intelligence links...
Ultimately, the Palestinians must and will get a homeland. They have a distinct culture and heritage. But like the Israelis, they are victims. They paid a horrendous price when the Arabs refused to go along with the U.N. partition in 1948. And they continue to live a wretched, tragic existence because of the PLO refusal to accept Israel's determined survival...
...make money. But it's less conservatism than materialism." Says Lillie Dollinger, an economics major at Texas A & M: "In the '80s the issues are money and jobs, and the conservatives are the ones getting students stirred up." At the same time, there has been a distinct cool ing on college campuses toward affirmative action: students tend to view special help for minorities as a threat to their own chances of success...