Word: intact
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...agreed on the multinational force that will police the Sinai after the final Israeli withdrawal next year. About half of the 2,500-man unit will be American, with the remainder coming from Australia, Canada, Ecuador and other countries. At least the basic Camp David peace accord was still intact, even if the Israeli-Egyptian normalization process had lost some momentum...
...there is another side. The troubles facing the Kremlin leadership loom large to the men who pore over the morning findings. U.S. capabilities, both military and economic, may be a bit battered and rusted, but they are basically intact, and it will be possible to catch up. Meanwhile, Moscow has to worry about 'crop failures in the Ukraine and the impact of Pope John Paul in Eastern Europe. The Soviet surge in alcoholism is also in the equation. It is more debilitating than our drug culture. It portends deep discouragement with a faltering system. Vodka has become more consoling...
...known as the Dowling Report, which suggested several changes in the structure of College governance. The primary alterations include establishing a student council with five subcommittees and retaining CUE--which Dowling Committee members considered the model committee--while splitting CHUL in two. The Faculty Council-Faculty structure would remain intact under the Dowling plan, which also proposes adding a $10 term-bill subcharge to provide the student council with a budget to organize activities and fund straggling undergraduate groups...
Still, Gen Ed managed to survive intact until almost 1964 when another educational reform committee was set up--this one chaired by Paul M. Doty, now Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry--and found that the steadily expanding list of Gen Ed courses were too elementary and not experimental enough, and proposed a series of reforms to make Gen Ed more modern and more exciting. Another year-long debate ensued...
Ultimately, the effectiveness of Dad lies beyond logic. The novel has the feel of an intense autobiography, not recollected in tranquillity but dashed off from life, with all its uncertainties, mixed motives and false starts preserved intact. Wharton, himself an artist and an American expatriate in France, has photographed this story instead of painting it. But, like the best snapshots, Dad is touching, commemorative and candid...