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...council has helped the city manager deal effectively with the recession and the state's drastic cutbacks in local...
...back down after such a strongly worded ultimatum would send a disastrous message to the military: that Harvard has had a drastic change of heart and doesn't really mind now what it minded two years ago. If Rudenstine and Knowles feel strongly enough in defense of ROTC, they should go ahead and send that message. But to pretend that the issue is simply up for grabs is downright irresponsible. Sure, let's talk. But most importantly, let's remember what's already been said...
...dealing with tribal violence. Over the past few months, hostilities have raged between the Afars and Tigreans, the Gurages and Wolaytas, the Anuaks and Nuers, and the Oromos and Tigreans. Meles could try to pacify them all by force. Instead, he has approached tribal elders to find less drastic compromises. In the case of the Afars, for instance, he has asked the elders to designate which tribesmen should be armed. "To disarm them all is unacceptable to the Afars," Meles explains. "So the choice is to disarm the irrational elements and arm the rational elements." By this risky equation...
...frightening economic slide keeps worsening, and no program to reverse it has been adopted or even formally introduced. There is some speculation that Yeltsin will declare a state of emergency this week, and he has huffed and puffed about drastic measures, including one freeing prices from state control. But he has not even spelled them out, much less introduced them. Meanwhile, his government and the Russian parliament have been unable to agree on whether to postpone local elections now scheduled for Dec. 8, and have left the jobs of prime minister and chairman of parliament vacant. "Russia's government...
Optima's troubles could hardly come at a worse time for its credit-card division, which has enjoyed uninterrupted growth ever since the green card was launched 33 years ago. That all changed this year with the drastic slowdown in consumer spending and travel that was prompted by the recession and the gulf war. Charge volume, which had been growing at more than 10% annually during the past two years, is expected to decline this year...