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...Faculty will likely vote on the status ofROTC when the council's two-year "grace period"ends. But even then, the Corporation will have thefinal say on ROTC policy, and will have the optionof either supporting or effictively vetoing anyFAS decision...
...rugged but not callous. His peers consider him an artist in the way he brings down mammoth firs to fall side by side, within inches of one another. With a 20-lb. saw hoisted to his shoulder and an ax in hand, he walks on logs with the grace of a gymnast on the high beam. But standing atop the trunk that was a 200-year-old tree, he can still share in the forest's loss. "It doesn't take long," he says. "To think it's been growing for 200 years or better, and then it's down...
Trump, who has a ten-day grace period to make his bond payment, may be trying to increase the pressure on his bankers in their negotiations to restructure his $2 billion debt load. Four major New York City banks have already agreed on a proposal that would extend him an additional $60 million to meet payment deadlines. But some of the smaller New Jersey banks reportedly balked at the terms because they felt they were taking on too much risk under the new arrangement...
Oliver is enchanted by the owls' trusting ways, their grace and their attention to their young. He worries about their future, seemingly dependent as they are for both prey and nesting sites on old-growth forests. But Oliver and others have observed that it is not the age of the forest that appears to be critical to the habitat of the owl, but rather the structure and character of the forest. He and other biologists hope that one day they will be able to identify those key components and, by preserving them in reforested tracts, both widen the owls' habitat...
...better than Batman. Warren Beatty, Hollywood's most distinctive producer- star, scores after a long dry spell with a gangland drama of wit and grace, narrative sweep and unique visual style. All this and Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman (strutting their roguish stuff while devil-dolled up in grotesque makeup) and a knockout Madonna too. It may not be a great movie -- after all, it's only comic-book art -- but it's great moviemaking...