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However, the anxious planners did not let the lack of funding halt the project The University in mid-1976 reassessed its needs and priorities and rescheduled the development of facilities to account for budget constraints. Reardon remembers the tough decision that laced the athletic department. "It was a question of do you do without money and hope you'll come out okay, or do you take it in parts?" he said...
...need not struggle completely alone--groups such as The Council for a Liveable World and Physicians for Social Responsibility provide information to counter both apathy and ignorance. If it is apparent that mass fear and widespread illusion sustain the arms race, it is also becoming clear that to halt it, such emotions must be replaced by courage and intelligence on a similar scale. Human history offers no precedent of such a transformation...
...tried to allay Wall Street worries that the Administration wants to subvert the Federal Reserve Board's policy of keeping a tight rein on the money supply, and thus refuel inflation. After a meeting with Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, Reagan used his press conference to call a halt to recent White House carping about the Reserve Board's independent stewardship of monetary policy. Said he: "I have confidence in the announced policies of the Federal Reserve Board. The Administration and the Federal Reserve can help bring inflation and interest rates down faster by working together than by working...
...Environment and Public Works Committee, has pledged to keep the 1970 Clean Air Act as is, except for minor revisions. When the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment opened hearings last month, Chairman Henry Waxman of California called the bill "an open invitation for a virtual halt in air-pollution control." At week's end, he announced that he would introduce his own bill to simplify and strengthen the act. After nearly a year of debate, though, nobody knows when, or how, the 1970 model will be restyled. The only certainty is that in the coming months...
...piece of the puzzle was Soviet intentions. My view is that the Soviets stopped short of encouraging the war but made no effort to halt it once they realized Sadat was determined to go to war. If the Arabs did well, the credit would go to Soviet arms and support. If they did poorly, Moscow thought it could emerge, as in 1967, as the champion of the radical Arab cause and perhaps even get rid of Egypt's troublesome Sadat. There was no doubt in my mind about the geopolitical stakes. About 90 minutes after we learned of the fighting...