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...whole, society benefits from a general awareness of the dangers of smoking. But this awareness often boils over into unjustified fury at friends lighting up the old cancer sticks. And just why is there no similar fury against the guy sucking down 16 ounces of beer through a funnel and a rubber hose...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Harvard's Favorite Drug Habit | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

Fitzwater said yesterday that although the United States is willing to provide technical assistance to the Soviet Union, it will resist attempts by the other industrialized nations to funnel funds to the troubled nation...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bush Opens Summit On Optimistic Note | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

With frequent allusions to the 1947 Harvard Commencement Speech given by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, in which Marshall announced his plan to funnel massive financial aid to rebuild war-torn Europe, Kohl said the United States should remain a "European power" in the coming decades...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Kohl Calls for U.S. Assistance | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

Dienstbier proposed that Western nations funnel $16 billion in economic aid to the Soviet Union. Over a ten-year period, Dienstbier said, that proposal would promote Eastern European modernization and trade...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Czechoslovak Minister Urges United Europe | 5/16/1990 | See Source »

Motivated by self-protection as much as by altruism, Bonn has offered more than $590 million to aid East Germany's troubled universities. The plan is to funnel federal money to selected West German colleges, which will then be teamed with East German schools in need of help. Bonn's concern is that East Germans, who are streaming across the border, will strain the capacity of West German schools unless their own higher-education system improves quickly. In West Berlin alone, authorities are bracing for the arrival of some 1,500 East German students. These newcomers are expected to swarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Expelling The Ghosts of Marx and Lenin | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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