Word: fellows
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...proposal for a Reagan library got caught in a crossfire between the largely liberal Stanford faculty and the predominantly conservative Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a semi-independent research facility of 70 fellows located on the Palo Alto campus. The Institution was founded in 1919 with $50,000 from Stanford Alumnus Herbert Hoover. Its charter: to study the forces of modern economic and political change. Since 1959, when Economist Glenn Campbell was appointed director and the institution enlarged its mission to "protect the American way of life," it has developed a reputation as one of the nation...
...most reckless in modern history." According to estimates by board members, there will be annual deficits of close to $200 billion during at least the next three years. Such shortfalls threaten to drive up interest rates and eventually abort the recovery. Board Member Charles Schultze, a Brookings Institution senior fellow, who was unable to attend the meeting because of bad weather on the East Coast, said in an interview afterward: "These deficits will do damage to investment and long-run growth. They will hurt housing, business investment, exports and American industries that compete with imports...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo, who defeated Koch in the bitter 1982 Democratic gubernatorial primary, gets good grades for being tough on unions and wise in his staff appointments. Ronald Reagan ("He thinks like a studio executive") was treated shrewdly from the start. During the 1980 campaign, Koch distressed fellow Democrats by briefing the Republican candidate on the city's problems. The mayor then called a press conference, at which Reagan promised New York federal loan guarantees. The effect was to make the candidate look like a winner and his host a man of prescience and pre-emptive clout...
...avant-garde Argentine writer (best-known novel: Hopscotch) and political activist, who supported the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions; of a heart attack; in Paris. Cortázar's subtle humor and sinister sense of fantasy, combined with the themes of identity and reincarnation, moved a fellow novelist to hail him as "one of the greatest creators of Latin American literature...
...head of the Palestinian delegation was Jerusalem-born Professor Walid Khalidi, a permanent research fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, one of the founders of the Institute of Palestinian Studies, and a professor of Government at the American University in Beirut since 1957. Other Palestinian delegates were scholars and editors from the West Bank, Jordan. Belgium and the University of Tennessee...