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With the Faculty absorbed in Cost Consciousness III, this task force could prove to be the prime determinant of whether the proposals of the other task forces can be put into effect. It, to be blunt, is dealing with bucks-and-brains allocation. But the committee has made little headway, with its meetings about every month confined to discussions of what data should collected. The task force has as yet made few or no moves to set up a system for evaluating the relative merit of various ways of allocating teaching resources...
...lucky we picked Miki," Liberal Democrats were telling each other last week. That is a new sentiment. As recently as last December, Miki's administration received an abysmal 26.6% popularity rating in a public opinion poll. His ambitious reform program had made little headway. Promised antitrust legislation ended up pigeonholed in the Diet. Inflation was slowed to a manageable 9%, but the government failed to stop price rises on necessities like rice, oil and electric power. The party's hawkish right wing blocked Miki's attempts to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Miki seemed weak and ineffective...
...time to time. The vicious cycle of assassination, execution, and reprisal killings is not likely to be interrupted by American intervention. Despite the constant efforts of Idaho's Secretary of State Pete Cenasurra, and U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada the only two American legislators of Basque origin, little headway can be expected in the battle to convince Congress that the autonomy of the Basque lands is more important than the maintenance of American military bases on Spanish soil. Those who would seem the most likely advocates of intervention, Basque-Americans with relatives still in the homeland, are prevented because...
...week's end, however, there was at least a faint ray of hope. A new truce -arranged by President Hafez Assad of Syria, Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat and Lebanese Premier Rashid Karami-seemed to be making some headway. In parts of Beirut, Christians and Moslems tore down barricades and gun emplacements and were aided by army bulldozers. But elsewhere in the capital, the combatants continued exchanging gunfire. The week's senseless violence had taken 100 lives, raising the death toll since April to more than 2,500, and had devastated even more of Beirut, turning...
Homosexuals have made much headway by using the model of the black civil rights struggle, from the routine singing of We Shall Overcome at rallies to specific complaints such as that of Gay Activist Franklin Kameny protesting the Army's ban on gays: "When you had problems with racism, you didn't throw out the blacks, you threw out the recalcitrant racists...