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...divide and dilute the presidency. You can only have one President. It's hard enough for the President to be in command. If anything, the presidency has been weakened too much in recent years. I think we need to strengthen the presidency again, not in terms of an excess of unaccountable power, but you know, it is really a pathetic sight that you leave a President with $1.95 a year to conduct foreign relations. For example, in the case of Nicaragua, where a little help early on might have strengthened the moderate forces, we had to spend three-quarters...
...creation of new energy sources. Thus he is pressing ahead with development projects like the $10 billion Itaipu Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project. As Delfim explained to TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief George Russell: "We are a classic case of an underdeveloped country with an excess of government spending and with difficulty in expanding exports to cover the cost of imports...
Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, the most distinguished graduate of Mrs. Dockie Shipp Weems' School of Expression in Nashville, rose up before the 1956 Democratic Convention and demonstrated a dying art. His keynote address that night beside the Chicago stock yards was a symphony of rhetorical excess, a masterpiece of alliteration and allusion, an epic of the smite-'em style of oratorical Americana...
...comment is needed on the matter of recruiting and its relation to Harvard sports success. We have seen excesses splashed across front pages and sports pages nationwide, and as the University expands its ambitions in certain athletic endeavors--indeed, just tries to keep up with other Ivy schools--the dangers of recruiting are not far from any Crimson follower's mind. Stoeckel, as liaison between admissions and athletics, has perhaps the crucial role in assuring that Harvard treads the tightrope well--without falling into the abyss of excess. Yale president Bart Giamatti, no doubt, will have one eye cocked toward...
...Japanese challenge. The company unveiled a 1984 two-seat electric commuter car that has a top speed of 50 m.p.h. and a range of 100 miles between rechargings. The firm also declared that the average mileage of its 1985-model car fleet will be 31 m.p.g., well in excess of the 27.5 m.p.g. ordered by the Government...