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...lucrative new commercial agreements with the Chinese could help to correct. The Chinese, for their part, produce an enormous quantity of consumer items, particularly textiles and simple manufactured goods like thermos bottles that they would like to barter for East European machine tools and other basic products needed to equip their burgeoning rural industries. China's primitive manufacturing concerns can neither afford nor fully exploit the benefits of advanced Western technology...
Although there are plans to eventually equip the entire lower floor of Tozzer with the automatic stacks, Librarian G. Edward Evans says he doubts it will ever happen. Yenching has also requested "Spacesaver" shelves, but, according to Connor, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has not granted the $250,000 that would be necessary...
...University exists to benefit all mankind through teaching and scholarship. It has a duty to pursue solutions to social and scientific problems, to equip and inspire its students to serve society as they serve themselves, and to maintain an intellectual preserve where individuals can challenge any truth or ask any question fearlessly...
...such concessions are unlikely. Even as Gorbachev was renewing his test- ban offer, the Pentagon continued plans to equip B-52 bombers with cruise missiles at a pace that would break the unratified SALT II treaty limits by mid-November. The defense budget passed by the House of Representatives, however, would cut off money for any weapons that would cause the U.S. to exceed SALT II weapons levels. The House also demanded a halt to any nuclear testing above the level of a single kiloton...
...elaborate conference was designed to "train, equip and encourage" others who, like Graham, travel to spread the Christian message. North Americans and Europeans provided the majority of the instruction but cheerfully performed the routine chores as well, ushering and operating the weapon scanners that are now fixtures at large European gatherings. How-to workshops offered tips on everything from prison projects to street preaching to the use of drama, with continual emphasis upon methods that would be practical, efficient and inexpensive...