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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operate the longer tandem trailers. It was a healthy exchange, but unfortunately for the industry, 14 states with lower limits exercised the option of maintaining the prior restrictions. The ATA has had its eye on this last vestige of barely intelligent highway management for several years, and despite grievous protestation, it was only too glad to accept the Reagan Administration's offer to override these last recalcitrants and open all of the nation's interstate highways to equal abuse...

Author: By Jonathan J. Doolan, | Title: Running on Empty | 2/17/1983 | See Source »

...time by the governor's three years teaching and preparing for a new race at the Kennedy School of Government. But policy development often goes beyond mere number-crunching "decision-making," and last time around, Dukakis made some wrong decisions. Cuts in human services spending were among the most grievous. This time around, he should seek to be more creative in dealing with budget deficits, and should not be so quick to cut social programs when the fiscal going gets tough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Dukes And Kings | 1/14/1983 | See Source »

...absurdity of such argument tends to mask the grievous harm the Arabs nearly succeeded in inflicting upon themselves and the rest of the Third World. Had Israel been excluded from the U.N., top-level officials in Washington--including Secretary of State George P. Shultz--said the United States would have departed as well. Such a move would have destroyed what little legitimacy the world body has left. And because the U.S. funds 25 percent of the U. N. 's budget, worthy projects--like development assistance for the Third World, did to Palestinian refugees and the maintenance of a peace-keeping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Arab Blunder | 10/28/1982 | See Source »

...recruiting and retaining minority tenured professors. If there is any racism at Harvard, it is on the part of the Law School administration whose dean expressed a preference for hiring "an excellent white teacher" over a "mediocre Black one." To imply that black legal professionals are mediocre is a grievous misstatement at best. and a racist commentary at worst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Law School Controversy: Two Views | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

...recruiting and retaining minority tenured professors. If there is any racism at Harvard, it is on the part of the Law School administration whose dean expressed a preference for hiring "an excellent white teacher" over a "mediocre Black one." To imply that black legal professionals are mediocre is a grievous misstatement at best and a racist commentary at worst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Law School Controversy: Two Views | 9/16/1982 | See Source »

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