Word: elementals
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...keep the economic wheels turning, Bush supports a windfall profits tax and a tax cut to stimulate investment in the economy. The most soothing element in the Bush dosage, however, is the packaging. Bush states his measures of austerity as one he "honestly believes" have to be taken. He says it once again: "We're going to have to do things to turn this country around...
...detriment of the Soviet Union. He pointed back to Vice President Mondale's visit to Peking in September and the recent visit of the U.S. Defense Secretary. From the Soviet perspective, there is an enormously strong fear of a U.S.-Chinese alliance which has become a fundamental element of Soviet policy...
Another unsettling element is the extensive leakage of the facts of the case to the press even before the targets of the probe were told they were under investigation. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "This is not a press leak but a press hemorrhage." Former Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox believes that "little leaks are one thing. Systematically giving out information of this scale raises real worries about the sensitivity of the people engaged in the administration of justice." Burke Marshall, a Yale law professor who once served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General, complained in the New York Times...
...presence of only 12 tenured women in the Faculty "forces one to consider that there may be some element of sex discrimination in tenure decisions," Alison Dundes '81, president of RUS, said yesterday. The absence of tenured women in the History Department, when women hold 20 per cent of the PhDs in history is "peculiar," she added...
...provide Peking with a ground station for receiving signals from satellites ?the sort of high technology that is being denied to the Soviets. Further, Brown and his hosts indicated that they would hold future talks on military affairs, which signaled Washington's interest in creating an important new element in the strategic balance of power by linking U.S. and Chinese security interests. As a symbolic touch, Brown even posed in a Chinese-made T-59 tank...