Word: iowa
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...strategic relationship over a determined adversary is impossible for either side. Instead, we have to adjust to the ambiguities of mutual deterrence and military equivalence, and have to restrain each side's weapons competition through balanced agreements which preserve our essential national security. --Sen. John C. Culver '54 [D-Iowa...
...palace coups, expounded the virtues of NATO'S General Alexander Haig, former White House aide who held things together in the last days of Watergate. Almost every day, former Secretary of the Treasury Bill Simon gets letters offering, indeed pleading, to help finance a Simon candidacy. In Iowa, Governor Robert Ray stands at a staggering 82% approval with his electorate-and he balances the budget. Reporters press him with the big question. No, he says, he likes Iowa...
...already looks like one. Bari Boshes, 17, a senior at New Trier East High School, in a suburb north of Chicago, was besieged with letters from Coe College, a small liberal arts school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa-and she had not even applied there. "Learn why we might be the right choice for you," implored the Coe admissions office...
...emphasis has been on selection. In the future it will be on recruitment," noted Richard Skelton of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. In the meantime, small colleges are fearful. Says Tom Daniels, director of admissions at the 800-student Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa: "The next 15 years may well be some of the most crucial times in higher education...
...Complains Vernon Conrad, vice president of California's Fresno County farm bureau: "Buying by outsiders is taking away the family-based farming communities that have helped make this country what it is." Laws preventing or limiting foreign ownership of land have been enacted in Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa, and the Illinois legislature this week will consider a prohibition of its own. There are enough loopholes to enable foreigners to avoid the restrictions, but doing so may become tougher in the future...