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DEFENSE SPENDING. If Reagan gets his way, military outlays will jump to $215.9 billion in fiscal 1983 (not counting $5.2 billion for defense-related activities), from $182.8 billion in the current fiscal year. That would be an increase of 10.5% even after adjustment for an expected inflation rate of 7.6% in defense items. "Total obligational authority," the Pentagon's right to sign contracts for future spending, would leap to $258 billion, a 13.2% inflation-adjusted rise. The plans constitute what is almost a do-everything-at-once policy. Reagan argues that "critical investments" are needed in a long list...
...know I can jump even better," Henry said after the GBCs. "I just began practicing three days before the meet...
...hockey--to which the commitment and intensity of the Ivy schools ranges from "quasi-club" to varsity. Coaches will have to ask themselves if their team is of a high-enough caliber to survive continuous Ivy League competition. Before, Parry said, "it was all too easy to jump into a championship meet." The round-robin system, he added, "will lead to consistency in all our programs...
...competitive. As for natural gas, while France now covers about 30 percent of its consumption with domestic production, the critically important Lacq reserves are slowly but very surely being exhausted. At the same time, the government projects that the proportion of gas in the total" energy budget" will jump from the current 13 percent to about 17 percent...
...goal of the Harvard Campaign may jump by $100 million; we hope that the University will allot interest from that money where it can benefit undergraduates most. We remind those responsible for dividing it up that it they do not look out for the interests of those students who are not wealthy, no one else will. The College must consider the plight of such applicants its special and foremost responsibility--and do its best to to channel funds not earmarked elsewhere into student...