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Laying the Groundwork...
Call him a low-profile Pat Buchanan--someone who is running in this campaign in order to lay the groundwork for a conservative run at the presidency in 1996. Phillips' hope is to use the "microphone of the presidential campaign to change the current party...
Many doctors are urging the government to restore funding for the old TB- control programs and even revive sanatoriums so that infectious patients may be quarantined during their treatment. Cuts in such programs may have laid the groundwork for the recent outbreaks. "We've not been too wise over the years," concedes Dr. Dixie Snider of the Centers for Disease Control. Snider points out that almost everything about the science of TB is too old or too slow. Simply diagnosing the resistant strain can take three months or more, and treatment efforts, which succeed only half the time, last...
...groundwork is laid for Harvard to do good on its promise to give first-year students a taste of the best that education can be. The program is in place, and it does good things...
...proudest things we have in our tradition is pluralism. Separation of church and state, which lays the groundwork for this tolerance of diversity, is a peculiarly American concept. The battle about what to teach is over. America has always been a study of different cultures operating on one continent. You have the French colonial exercise in Canada, the British colonial exercise here, and the Spanish colonials in the lower part of the hemisphere. What's happening now is that things that have been accepted in academic history are filtering down into the elementary schools and have become part...