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...Brecht remains optimistic. He plans to take a semester off next year in order to finish his book, and he says he still encourages his best students to combat what he calls the "brain-drain in Humanities" by entering the academic market...
...investigation has been a steady drain on the police budget. Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson has asked for additional state police to help free more Atlanta police to work on the murders. The city is offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to a solution of the crimes. Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. has offered a benefit performance in March to help raise funds for the police. Said Frank Sinatra: "I'll be there...
TIME'S economists warn that competitive belt-tightening by the major industrialized nations may seriously stall economic recovery. The oil exporters will drain $120 billion from the importing countries next year, and every Western nation seems determined to reduce its deficit in order to keep its currency strong. As governments slow their economies by escalating interest rates, they also choke off the capital investment that is vital for renewed growth. An additional danger is that, as unemployment rises, workers will demand protection from imports. New barriers to world trade would ensure sluggish growth. European industrialists have already been lobbying...
...fashioned or newfashioned, neighborhood schools offer the possibility of increased parental involvement. "Like many other mothers, I work," Carol Ducy explained. "It would be impractical to drive many miles across town to the school where my child has been bused." Even though places like Palisades Village tend to drain bright students from the public school system, Roberta Weintraub, president of the Los Angeles Board of Education concedes: "When you create an untenable situation for financially able parents, they are going to find a solution. Busing is the second great American social experiment that failed. The first was Prohibition...
...gain. For Al Carnesale, alas! appointment came too late And nuclear power will march on to its fate. The year's been, well, preliminary for Robert Klitgaard--If he could get things finished, maybe next won't be as hard. Across the world, leaders lift their glasses and then drain--Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, toast Saddam Hussein. Let Giscard D'Estaing drink with Yassir Arafat Deng Hsiao-ping, have one on Anwar Sadat. Solidarity will flow through the streets of Warszawa When Brezhnev sips vodka with Lech Walesa. Benigno Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos, share a beer, Ideally, when His Holiness...