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...drops chunks of ice off its face as it moves forward. This process can speed up dramatically when changing climatic conditions cause a glacier to begin thinning out. This decrease in thickness can destroy a glacier's delicate equilibrium and radically increase calving in a process called "drastic retreat" that may last for decades...
Columbia is the only calving glacier in western North America not to have experienced a drastic retreat in several thousand years. But ominous signs of instability have been reported by a U.S. Geological Survey team. Upstream from its face, the glacier has thinned by more than 30 ft. in one year, and since 1974, there have been periods of accelerated calving every summer. Says U.S.G.S. Glaciology Project Chief Mark Meier: "This suggests that there is not enough ice coming forward to keep up with the iceberg calving...
...MOST DRASTIC attacks are, of course, on student freedom to choose an academic program. The Core Curriculum, rushed through with eleven minutes of debate on the proposal itself, and passed in spite of strong and broad-based student opposition, is the most overwhelming example. One of the greatest gains made by students in recent years was the explosion in the number of courses; the diversity of choice put the structure of the student's program very much in the student's hands. The attack on that diversity began well before the core was proposed with such tactics as denying...
...free-market economist who helped Charles de Gaulle put France on the road to financial reform after 50 years of inflation and deterioration of the franc; in Paris. A firm advocate of the gold standard as an economic foundation for all Western countries, Rueff in 1958 carried out a drastic reduction in borrowing, the removal of nearly all quota restrictions for international trade and most significantly, the creation of a new franc (worth 100 old francs), which helped restore France's balance of trade and built up its gold reserves...
...political dissidents. Dispatched on a mission to Moscow by the President and told to carry out "open" diplomacy, Vance found himself uncharacteristically briefing reporters on what the new Administration was demanding of the Kremlin in the way of a SALT II agreement: the Russians should either agree to a drastic reduction in strategic weapons or defer such problems as the Soviet Backfire bomber and U.S. Cruise missile and accept a simple continuation of the modest limitations on offensive weapons tentatively set by Brezhnev and Ford at Vladivostok in 1974. Brezhnev, stung by both the human rights campaign and what sounded...