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...focal point of Altman's 5-1 offense, she essentially directs the team and to a large extent controls the tempo of the game. Co-captain Valerie Romero, a Winthrop House senior, says, "Margaret is a dominating force; she is all over the court on every point--a really dedicated volleyball player...
...wide screen amidships. Hollywood Writer-Director Melville Shavelson has so much electronic gear-including a computer hooked up to a U.P.I, news wire-that he has had to divide it between two rooms. Says he: "Theater for the home is already here. A media room becomes a focal point for the family. You make your own popcorn, make sodas at the fountain, drinks, barbecue. I have over my sons and daughters and grandchildren. It's total information. It's total entertainment...
Nevertheless, recent contractual agreements between research institutions and corporations have sparked considerable concern in academic circles about possible conflicts between unbiased scientific investigation and corporate profits. Harvard again became a focal point of attention in this area this spring when two weeks after one of its teaching hospitals, the Massachusetts General Hospital, announced it had received a $60-million grant from the German chemical firm Hoechst, the Medical School announced that it had received a $6-million grant of its own from DuPont. Both of the grants will fund research in the controversial field of recombinant...
...soda in an official guest house during a one-hour interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott in the central Libyan desert city of Sebha. Indeed, the mercurial strongman's imperturbability seemed to be in almost studied contrast to the erratic policies that have increasingly made Libya a focal point of international controversy and contention. Only hours after the interview, Israel charged that Libyan-operated SA9 missiles had been fired at Israeli reconnaissance planes from Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon (see preceding story). In the U.S. three weeks earlier, the Reagan Administration had expelled 27 Libyan diplomats in protest...
...years since the University first instituted an affirmative action policy, Harvard has become one of the focal points of a nationwide debate about the legitimacy and implications of affirmative action. While few scholars have openly opposed the policy, the definitional disagreements have run rampant, and have severely hindered its operation...