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Spence uncannily seems to fit all the possible attributes Bok was looking for in filling the job. As an economist, he should be able to maintain the tight-fisted control Rosovsky kept on the budget deficits, which have largely subsided since swelling up to several million dollars in the early...
Ford suffered a stroke in the aftermath of the 1969 takeover of University Hall, and left the deanship at the end of that year. His turbulent tenure was followed by the tight-fisted rule of labor economist John T. Dunlop.
Grenadians last week were dismayed to learn of what seemed a ham-fisted exercise of Yankee power: a unit of heavily armed U.S. troops closed and occupied a thriving Roman Catholic community house that a sergeant says had been "a center for Communist propaganda." Mab, a woman who worked at...
After the iron-fisted Chicago convention in 1968, reform-minded Democrats vowed to get the bosses and the smoke-filled rooms out of politics. By the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City, they had almost succeeded in pushing the pros out. Of the 3,331 delegates in Madison...
One year after Israel's humiliation of Syria during the invasion of Lebanon, Assad has rebuilt not only his country's armed forces but its image and its diplomatic position. Far from humbled, he has acquired a decisive voice in the future of Lebanon and of the Palestinian...