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Together, those weapons do help inhibit Soviet aggressiveness, although, to be sure, they do not compensate for the Soviet monopoly in one category of weaponry: numerous, highly accurate, land-based missiles that can reach targets throughout Europe in a matter of minutes. Therefore none of the existing Western weapons should be given equal treatment with Soviet SS-20s on the agenda of the INF negotiations. The British and French forces in particular should be left aside entirely. Mostly submarine-based, less accurate and less destructive, they have as their prime purpose to defend Britain and France alone, not the Western...
...Harvard in importance, perhaps Radcliffe, through RUS, can turn its attention better to complementing it. And with than reassurance, perhaps women at Radcliffe will no longer allow confidence in their own abilities to bind them to the subtle negative influences inherent in a traditionally male university--influences which may inhibit the very qualities which have brought them so far already...
Four years ago, when Robert Brustein and his American Repertory Theatre (ART) came to Cambridge in a unique partnership between drama and academia, the controversy lasted from September until May. Most student dramatists opposed the experiment, fearing that sharing the Loeb building and stage with a professional troupe would inhibit experimentation and curtail student opportunities. And when the deal finally went through, vocal opponents may well have taken comfort in the thought that the contract mandated a full-scale review four years later a review which, according to Faculty rules, could result in anything from a rubber stamp...
...committee member Phyllis Bott, co-master of Dunster House, said that "feelings were slightly mixed," and that open meetings might inhibit the committee's proceedings...
...experts could not agree on which standards the Christian teachers needed to follow, nor could they prove any link between certified teachers and good education. Noted Judge Hotchkiss, a former public school teacher: "The over whelming evidence shows that teacher certification does not ensure teacher competency and may even inhibit it." Since each student who leaves a Michigan public school to attend a Christian academy deprives the local school district of about $2,000 in state aid, the judge also observed that state officials were hardly disinterested guardians of education. He called state regulation of private schools "an incredible conflict...