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Experts fear that such conclusions will reduce the impetus to finding a solution to the problem. This in turn, they say, could further excerbate the current trend to less funding for atmospheric research, which would be disastrous to long-term efforts in the area...
...TIME'S former Canadian bureau chiefs are now based in New York City: Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan (Ottawa, 1968-71), Deputy Chief William Mader (Ottawa, 1973-76) and Senior Editor Henry Muller (Vancouver, 1971-73). Their continuing interest in the U.S.'s northern neighbor helped give impetus to our full-length story on the state of Canada and its politics...
...theme of postwar friendship. Though a number of newspaper editorials pointed to the absence of anything resembling a vindictive tone in the ceremonies, Alois Mertes, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, suggested that the celebrations "could make the German people feel alienated, vanquished and guilty," something that might "give impetus to pacifists and neutralists who are seeking a special German role between East and West...
...impetus for the Shultz trip came from Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid during his visit to Washington last month. De la Madrid bluntly told Reagan that the time was ripe for fresh feelers. Though a top State Department official has met quietly with the Sandinistas five times over the past year, the last session, in March in Managua, turned into an anti-U.S. diatribe. Impressed by the Mexican President's plea, Reagan told Shultz to try for a meeting. The Nicaraguans readily agreed, though an argument over where to meet (Shultz, due to join Reagan in Europe...
Part of the impetus for the proposal was a study conducted by the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, which found that achievement scores best predicted the way students would perform at Harvard. No word in yet on when the proposed change might be implemented...