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Late last week, in a determined effort to head off any drift toward a two-front war, British authorities took eight more Protestants into custody. In the strongest language he has yet used against Ulster's "loyalists," William Whitelaw, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, denounced the strike and its organizers. "Let us be quite clear," he said. "No one, no matter who he thinks he is, no matter how loud he shouts, is above the law." He made it clear that the British government would press ahead with its plans for a referendum on reunification...
...immune to the radically different "Asian A2" and Hong Kong strains that erupted in those years. The Pasteur scientists do not claim to have anticipated such a major mutation. But in between such large alterations, the virus undergoes a process called "antigenic drift," in which subtle changes occur in the virus' protein overcoat. The now prevalent London flu strain represents one of several such minor changes in the basic Hong Kong virus of 1968, and generally available vaccines are only 50% effective against...
Toothless Drift. Such quaint practices were doomed in 1968, when the Times offered a sizable block of shares to the public. Investors were pleased by record profits in 1969, but the costly 1970 labor settlement and declining earnings provoked much criticism of the company's management. Sulzberger candidly admits that "we were drifting, but we really had not, as a management team, put any teeth into doing anything about...
Unresolved issues currently facing the Faculty--such as University discipline and graduate student funding--are too pressing to allow the Faculty to drift along without effective leadership. Bearing this in mind, we hope along with Harvard's Grover Cleveland that President Bok will go about finding a permanent dean with all possible speed...
...reserve--but he refuses to tell her anything is wrong, to bring it all out in the open, since his trust and confidence in her has been broken. She frantically tries all the harder to communicate and to please, but her pathetic awkwardness only increases his alienation. They drift further and further apart, till the final separation...