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...unveiled a committee on student volunteerism; Bok charged that group with increasing the opportunities for students to participate in community service. Such activities may represent some small way of reinculcating the sense of decency that so many say is now lacking. Unless Bok's new committee takes a drastic step, however, like calling for mandatory community service, it probably will not make a big dent in the "civility problem." Still, the University has to begin somewhere. If unacceptable behavior is "neglected much longer," one veteran professor argues, "all the Core Curricula in the world will not salvage the place." After...
market. But few industry watchers share its optimism. Most think that the firm faces another difficult year and will get by mainly because of drastic cost-cutting measures that have pared the company's white-collar work force in the U.S. by 22% since...
...chief was testifying to the Senate Budget Committee, but he might as well have been addressing Ronald Reagan. Not that the President needed the warning. As he prepared for a speech this week announcing a new, and drastic, series of budget cuts, White House aides were well aware that the President for the first time was facing a credibility gap. To a large extent, Reagan had opened it himself by delivering on his campaign promises to slash taxes deeply, while starting a huge military buildup. Those astounding successes have raised grave doubts that Reagan can also redeem his equally important...
Many Western experts doubted that the Soviet message meant that an invasion was imminent. But it was unclear what "radical steps" Moscow expected the Poles to take. Short of declaring martial law, a drastic event that could cause a massive civil uprising, Polish authorities could presumably start suppressing Solidarity's publications, banning union meetings and even arresting people accused of "anti-Soviet" attacks. All of these acts have in fact already occurred in scattered instances. But in the present atmosphere, any case of local repression could balloon into a major confrontation...
While Conservative Joe Clark, leader of the federal opposition, urged Trudeau to take drastic action to end the postal strike, the prime minister stood by the right to strike even as government negotiators took a hard-line approach at the bargaining table. Trudeau believes in the need to compromise in a federal system, but hsi hands-off attitude toward the postal strike helped cause a significant summer by-election defeat in a traditional Liberal stronghold...