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HART WILL win big in the Northeast, although perhaps not as well as a New Englander would. He will also drain some of the Republican support in the West, particularly in Colorado and California. The presence of Nunn or Robb as a vice-presidential nominee will draw a majority of Southern whites...
...instant of maximum scrunch, the core continues its collapse indefinitely, forming a bizarre object of infinitesimal size and nearly infinite density, with a gravitational field so intense that light itself cannot escape -- a black hole. In effect, the entire, tremendous mass of the star has gone down a cosmic drain...
...support, he cannot begin reconstructing Poland's shattered economy. Real wages last year amounted to less than 80% of 1980 levels, while net investment in industry and agriculture in the same period fell by 50% and exports that bring in badly needed hard currency dropped almost 25%. The biggest drain continues to be Poland's huge foreign debt, which now stands at more than $31 billion. Last September Polish and Western negotiators signed an agreement rescheduling 95% of the payments owed to lenders through 1987. Still, Finance Minister Bazyli Samojlik conceded last week that Poland would not be able...
...rather than a down-the-line liberal. A former Army intelligence officer, Fowler has made military affairs a special interest, and on that subject he follows no particular ideological line. He has supported a nuclear freeze and strongly opposed the MX missile and B-1 bomber, largely because they drain away funds needed to maintain the readiness of conventional forces. But he is also an advocate of the Trident II submarine-launched missile and has voted for continued research on Star Wars while contending that the "important thing is to find a way to have meaningful and verifiable agreements between...
...promised new guidelines to prevent a repeat of this fiasco, and one can only wish him Godspeed. But as Dean Spence's secretive and timorous handling of the Safran affair demonstrates, the University has been slow and inept at adapting to new funding problems to the current drain on research resources...