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Although the removal of Pershings and cruise missiles would not seriously handicap NATO's nuclear strike ability, the implications of an INF treaty go beyond tactical effects. The first successful disarmament treaty--as opposed to an arms control treaty such as SALT--could easily bring about, in its wake, the negotiated elimination of other nuclear weapons in Europe such as those carried by bombers or fired by artillery. An INF treaty holds out the possibility of the "denuclearization" of Europe, which would remove the West's check on Soviet conventional superiority on the continent...
Despite the growth of his business, Duclos spends enough time on the fairways to keep his handicap at a respectable 6. Besides the Long Beach home, Duclos and his wife Mollie own a vacation cottage near the famed Old Course at St. Andrews. Off the links, he relaxes by playing Beethoven and Mozart on a Kawai grand piano, accompanied by a $17,000 Kurzweil synthesizer that can replicate the sound of a symphony orchestra...
...Palmer and Billy Casper win tournaments on the senior tour, and Kathy Baker used one in her victory at the 1985 U.S. Women's Open. But most of Slotline's customers have much more modest goals. Thom Smith, 42, a tax lawyer in Fairfax, Va., says he chopped his handicap from 19 to 13 after he began playing with a set of Slotline irons. "I don't get to practice much," he says, "so I need more forgiving clubs." Forgiveness, though, came at a price: $468 to Duke Duclos, the merchant of high-tech golf...
...this approach has problems that handicap its effectiveness. It's fine to learn the process, but where does a student learn the values he will base his future actions on? Professor Stanley Hoffman once described that when he teaches a Core course he concentrates "on the building rather than scaffolding." Instruction that is obsessed with process will miss the more important "building" of actual moral values...
President Bok personally journeyed to Washington to argue that the bill would handicap the University's attempts to bring new blood into the faculty when the majority of tenured professors turn 70 in 15 years...