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...goodness. I can't stand it no more" verbalize the sentiments of all who have suppressed joyous emotions when hearing Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson grab for our hearts through...woofers and tweeters. The "My Guy/My Girl" duet performed by Edna Davis and Lewis Robinson similarly brings to fruition a fantasy: the blending of the two songs which epitomize utter faithfulness...
Reagan's plan could take years of patient diplomacy and negotiation to bring to fruition, if in fact that can be accomplished at all. Prime Minister Menachem Begin denounced the plan as "an affront to Israel"; in an emergency session his Cabinet unanimously agreed that "on the basis of these proposals, Israel will not enter into any negotiations with any party whatsoever." U.S. officials expected that initial negative reaction; they hope that Arab interest in the plan as the basis for negotiations, and internal debate within Israel will eventually soften Begin's hard-line stand. There was little...
...project in Iran reached fruition, the University would then have had a vested interest in the stability of that country's regime. In discussing ROTC and stocks. Bok gives a further clue to his view of an institution's organic character. Consider his view on ROTC: "Of course, there is no compelling reason why a university should be obliged to commence an ROTC program in the first instance any more than it should be obliged to start an extracurricular program. The problem arises when a program already in existence is terminated on political grounds." A university can therefore decide...
This damn-the-cost loyalty to developing weapons is one of the main reasons that they are so hard to scuttle. In the age of technology, one path to acquiring shoulder stars is nurturing a system to fruition. Upward-bound officers often find themselves allied with contractors in an effort to convince the Pentagon and others that their project should be built. The temptation is to underestimate costs at the beginning. Admits Army Under Secretary James Ambrose: "It almost seems an institutional phenomenon that projects start with gross underestimates by both Government and the contractor...
Under pressure from the Corporation, donors said, Slive had convinced members of the faculty of Fine Arts to go along with a limited one-time sale of art as the only way to bring the plans for the addition to fruition...