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...employees will find places to live at the expense of current residents," says Sullivan, "and this will change the face of the city in drastic ways. This is a deliberate social policy to preserve diversity...
...changes in honors requirements, which officials estimate would cause at most a modest reduction in the percentage of eligible seniors, would increase the number of courses counted when grade-point averages are computed, and impose higher minimum standards for certain degrees. Some Faculty members are believed to want more drastic changes designed to take an even larger bite out of the honor group than would the planned amendments, which would first affect freshmen entering next fall...
...Washington has poured more than $115 billion into propping up agricultural prices through subsidies and related forms of assistance. Last year alone, federal farm programs cost $7.3 billion, and this year they could run as high as $15 billion. Next month the Reagan Administration will propose to Congress a drastic overhaul of the whole costly system of price and income supports for farmers. The policy shift would slash $7 billion a year from the federal budget deficit and would mean dramatic changes in American farming. Says Agriculture Secretary John Block: "We need to become competitive in pricing and selling...
...other. The predicament may sound familiar, but Rick and Lonnie are hardly stock figures from a TV sitcom or sentimental drama in which love conquers all. In an upcoming ABC movie called Surviving, the youths feel increasingly beleaguered and estranged from the world. Depressed and hopeless, they take a drastic step. One night they sneak into her parents' garage, huddle together on the front seat of the family car and start the engine. The next morning they are dead...
...Reagan holds firm on Star Wars, he might as well abandon his pursuit of drastic reductions in existing Soviet weaponry. The best he could hope for would be an interim agreement that somewhat lowers existing ceilings on strategic weapons and perhaps imposes some new subceilings to cover shorter- range weapons. There is no guarantee that the President would approve such a plan. It would mean siding with State Department moderates against Pentagon hard-liners. The plot would thicken further, since there are divisions within the State Department as well. Paul Nitze, who is Shultz's special adviser on arms control...